en Asterosteus

Asterosteus; Temporal range: Eifelian
	Artist's reconstruction of A. stenocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	†Placodermi
Order:	Rhenanida
Family:	Asterosteidae
Genus:	Asterosteus
Type species
	Asterosteus stenocephalus; Newberry 1875
species
	A. stenocephalus; A. sp.;

Asterosteus is a genus of rhenanid placoderm from the Eifelian. The type species, A. stenocephalus, is known from an incomplete skull from Middle Devonian strata in Ohio. What may be a second species ("Asterosteus sp Schmidtt 1963") is described from fragments decorated with star-shaped tubercules from the Eifelian-aged Gebze beds of Turkey.^[1]

References

^ Denison, Robert (1978). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 2, Placodermi. New York: Gustav Fischer Verlage. p. 25. ISBN 9780895740274.

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[Denison-1] Denison, Robert (1978). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 2, Placodermi. New York: Gustav Fischer Verlage. p. 25. ISBN 9780895740274.

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