Английская Википедия:Gorgonichthys

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Gorgonichthys jaws.
The infragnathals (lower jaws) of Gorgonicthys with a 1-liter water bottle for scale (bottle is approximately 23 cm tall). These specimens were collected from the Cleveland Shale and are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Department of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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Ventral plates of Gorgonichthys clarki

Gorgonichthys is extinct monospecific genus of large arthrodire placoderm. Fossils are found in the Upper Famennian Cleveland Shales of Late Devonian in Ohio. The type species is Gorgonichthys clarki.

Description

Gorgonichthys had sharp, pointed edges on the dental plates of the upper and lower jaws.[1] With a headshield length of up to Шаблон:Cvt,[2] it is estimated to have been comparable to the size of Dunkleosteus.[3]

Phylogeny

Gorgonichthys is a member of the clade Aspinothoracidi, which belongs to the clade Pachyosteomorphi, one of the two major clades within Eubrachythoraci. It is closely related to the family Selenosteidae, and could possibly be included in that family. The cladogram below shows the phylogeny of Gorgonichthys:[4] Шаблон:Clade

According to a 2022 Jobbins et al. study, Gorgonichthys was found to be more related to Heintzichthys than Gymnotrachelus, potentially making Gorgonichthys a member of Selenosteidae.[5] Шаблон:Clade

References

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