Angarichthys

Angarichthys
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Suborder: †Brachythoraci
Family: †Homostiidae
Genus: †Angarichthys
Obruchev, 1927
Species:
†A. hyperboreus
Binomial name
†Angarichthys hyperboreus
Obruchev, 1927

Angarichthys hyperboreus is an extinct homostiid arthrodire placoderm from the Middle Devonian (either upper Eifelian or lower Givetian) of Siberia.[1] It is known from an infragnathal plate, an intero-lateral plate, and a marginal plate found from the Middle Devonian strata of the Tynep Series formation, in the Bakhta River basin, Tunguska Plateau. A. hyperboreus differs from Homosteus in that the former's marginal plate has a ridge where the central plate would have overlapped it,[1] and in the infragnathal, which is curved sigmoidally, and bears at least seven tooth-like prongs nearer to the functional anterior end (the plate, which is fragmentary, suggests that the intact plate would have born several more).[1]

The living animal would have been fairly large, as the head shield is estimated to be at least 40 centimeters long.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Denison, Robert (1978). Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology'. Stuttgart New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-89574-027-4.