Taemasosteus
| Taemasosteus Temporal range:
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| Reconstruction of T. novaustrocambricus | |
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| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †
Placodermi |
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| Family: | White, 1952
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| Genus: | Taemasosteus White, 1952
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| Type species | |
| Taemasosteus novaustrocambricus White, 1952
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Taemasosteus is an extinct genus of
aged marine strata in New South Wales, Australia
. It contains two species, T. novaustrocambricus, and T. maclartiensis.
The genus (and a monotypic family, "Taemasosteidae") was originally erected on the basis of "an imperfect" paranuchal, though, more specimens were found, eventually leading "Taemasosteidae" to be subsumed into
sister taxon of Homostiidae (or a select group of the better known homostiid genera) within the taxon Migmatocephala
.