Grossilepis brandi Miles 1968 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Bothriolepidiformes - Bothriolepididae

Full reference: R. S. Miles. 1968. The Old Red Sandstone Antiarchs of Scotland: Family Bothriolepididae. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 122(522):2-127

Belongs to Grossilepis according to Miles 1968

Sister taxa: Grossilepis rikiki, Grossilepis spinosa, Grossilepis tuberculata

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hazeldean Burn (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

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