Osteichthyes - Porolepidiformes

Full reference: T. Ørvig. 1969. Vertebrates from the Wood Bay Group and the position of the Emsian‐Eifelian boundary in the Devonian of Vestspitsbergen. Lethaia 2(4):273-328

Belongs to Heimenia according to J. Mondéjar-Fernández and G. Clément 2012

See also Clément et al. 2006, Mondéjar‐Fernández et al. 2020 and Ørvig 1969

Sister taxon: Heimenia ensi

Type specimen: SMNHP 6475, an osteoderm

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Stjørdalen (Devonian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen)

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