Edgellaspis gorteri Hunt and Young 2011 (armour-plated fish)

Placodermi - Arthrodira

Full reference: J. R. Hunt and G. C. Young. 2011. A new placoderm fish of uncertain affinity from the Early–Middle Devonian Hatchery Creek succession at Wee Jasper, New South Wales. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 35(1):53-75

Belongs to Edgellaspis according to J. R. Hunt and G. C. Young 2011

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is C' Hatchery Creek cycle, Corradigbee Formation, which is in an Emsian mire/swamp mudstone/sandstone in the Corradigbee Formation of Australia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at C' Hatchery Creek cycle, Corradigbee Formation

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