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Antiarcha

Placodermi - Antiarcha

Taxonomy

Antiarcha was named by Cope (1885). It is not extant.

It was reranked as the class Antiarcha by Gadow (1898).

It was assigned to Hypostomata by Gadow (1898); to Placodermi by Hay (1902); to Placodermi by Denison (1975); and to Placodermi by Denison (1978), Sepkoski (2002) and Young (2010).

Subtaxa

Bothriolepidae, Grossaspis (syn. Ceraspis), Jiangxilepis, Lepadolepis (syn. Ceratolepis), Liujiangolepis, Macrodontophion, Microbrachius, Phymolepis, Pterichthyodid, Silurolepidae, Taeniolepis, Xichonolepis, Yunnanolepiformes, Zhanjilepis

Sister taxa

Yunnanolepiformes

Synonyms

Antiarchi was named by Cope (1885).

It was synonymized subjectively with Antiarcha by Denison (1978).

It was assigned to Placodermi by Thomson and Thomas (2001); and to Placodermi by Dineley and Metcalf (1999) and Moloshnikov (2007).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1885	Antiarcha Cope
1885	Antiarchi Cope
1898	Antiarcha Gadow p. 4
1902	Antiarcha Hay p. 342
1975	Antiarcha Denison p. 23
1978	Antiarcha Denison
1999	Antiarchi Dineley and Metcalf p. 11
2001	Antiarchi Thomson and Thomas p. 683
2002	Antiarcha Sepkoski
2007	Antiarchi Moloshnikov
2010	Antiarcha Young p. 527

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata

Rank	Name	Author
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Placodermiomorphi
class	Placodermi	M'Coy 1848
order	Antiarcha	Cope 1885
order	Antiarcha	Cope 1885

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Or. †Antiarcha Cope 1885

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G. †Grossaspis White and Moy-Thomas 1940

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†Grossaspis carinata Schluter 1887

Invalid names: Ceraspis Schlüter 1887 [replaced]

G. †Jiangxilepis Zhang and Liu 1991

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†Jiangxilepis longibrachius Zhang and Liu 1991

G. †Lepadolepis White and Moy-Thomas 1940

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†Lepadolepis stensioei Gross 1933

Invalid names: Ceratolepis Gross 1933 [replaced]

G. †Liujiangolepis Wang 1987

G. †Macrodontophion Zborzewski 1834

G. †Microbrachius Traquair 1888

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†Microbrachius dicki Traquair 1888

G. †Phymolepis Zhang 1978

G. †Pterichthyodid

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†Pterichthyodid anitarch Turner et al. 1981

Fm. †Silurolepidae Zhang et al. 2010

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G. †Silurolepis Zhang et al. 2010

†Silurolepis platydorsalis Zhang et al. 2010

G. †Taeniolepis Gross 1932

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†Taeniolepis speciosa Gross 1932

G. †Xichonolepis Pan and Wang 1978

G. †Zhanjilepis Zhang 1978

Invalid names: Antiarchi Cope 1885 [synonym], Yunnanolepiformes Zhang 1978 [empty]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available