Placodermi - Bothriolepidiformes - Bothriolepididae
Full reference: J. P. Downs, E. B. Daeschler, V. E. Garcia and N. H. Shubin. 2016. A new large-bodied species of Bothriolepis (Antiarchi) from the Upper Devonian of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6):e1221833
Belongs to Bothriolepis according to J. P. Downs et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Bothriolepis africana, Bothriolepis alvesiensis, Bothriolepis amankonyrica, Bothriolepis antarctica, Bothriolepis askinae, Bothriolepis babichevi, Bothriolepis barretti, Bothriolepis bindareei, Bothriolepis canadensis, Bothriolepis cellulosa, Bothriolepis ciecere, Bothriolepis cristata, Bothriolepis cullodenensis, Bothriolepis curonica, Bothriolepis dairbhrensis, Bothriolepis dorakarasugensis, Bothriolepis evaldi, Bothriolepis extensa, Bothriolepis favosa, Bothriolepis fergusoni, Bothriolepis gigantea, Bothriolepis gippslandiensis, Bothriolepis grenfellensis, Bothriolepis groenlandica, Bothriolepis hayi, Bothriolepis heckeri, Bothriolepis hicklingi, Bothriolepis hydrophila, Bothriolepis jani, Bothriolepis jarviki, Bothriolepis jazwicensis, Bothriolepis jeremijevi, Bothriolepis karawaka, Bothriolepis kassini, Bothriolepis kohni, Bothriolepis kwangtungensis, Bothriolepis laverocklochensis, Bothriolepis leptocheira, Bothriolepis lochangensis, Bothriolepis lohesti, Bothriolepis longi, Bothriolepis macphersoni, Bothriolepis macrocephala, Bothriolepis maeandrina, Bothriolepis major, Bothriolepis markovskii, Bothriolepis mawsoni, Bothriolepis maxima, Bothriolepis nielseni, Bothriolepis nikitinae, Bothriolepis nitida, Bothriolepis niushoushanensis, Bothriolepis obesa, Bothriolepis obrutschewi, Bothriolepis ornata, Bothriolepis panderi, Bothriolepis paradoxa, Bothriolepis pavariensis, Bothriolepis perija, Bothriolepis portalensis, Bothriolepis prima, Bothriolepis shaokuanensis, Bothriolepis siberica, Bothriolepis sibirica, Bothriolepis sinensis, Bothriolepis sosnensis, Bothriolepis stevensoni, Bothriolepis tastenica, Bothriolepis tatongensis, Bothriolepis taylori, Bothriolepis traquairi, Bothriolepis traudscholdi, Bothriolepis tungseni, Bothriolepis turanica, Bothriolepis virginiensis, Bothriolepis volongensis, Bothriolepis vuwae, Bothriolepis warreni, Bothriolepis wilsoni, Bothriolepis yeungae, Bothriolepis yunnanensis, Bothriolepis zhujiangyuanensis, Stenacanthus nitida
Type specimen: NUFV 1192, a partial skull. Its type locality is NV2K11 Site, which is in a Frasnian wet floodplain siltstone/sandstone in the Nordstrand Point Formation of Canada.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at NV2K11 Site
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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