- placoderms, the
phyllolepids were bottom-dwelling
predators that
ambushed prey.
Unlike other flattened placoderms, the
phyllolepids were inhabitants...
- were
extremely small,
suggesting the eyes were
vestigial and that the
phyllolepids may have been blind.
Ptyctodontida ("folded teeth") were
lightly armoured...
-
confirm that
phyllolepids were
suctorial predators analogous to
goosefish or flatheads. This
Frasnian genus is the most
widespread phyllolepid, with fossils...
- Kellw****er Event, and all
remaining subgroups (arthrodires, antiarchs,
phyllolepids, and ptychodontids) died out
abruptly at the end of the Devonian. Sarcopterygians...
-
freshwater environments,
possibly rivers and streams. As with all
other known phyllolepids,
Phyllolepis were
presumed to have been blind, bottom-dwelling predators...
- 1096-3642.2009.00578.x. Dupret, Vincent; M. Zhu (2007-11-30). "The
earliest phyllolepid (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Late
Lochkovian (Early Devonian) of...
- fish
spines and bony plates.
Fault Bluff' is the type
locality for the
phyllolepid placoderms,
Austrophyllolepis quiltyi and
Placolepis tingeyi. This outcrop...
- Wales.
Unlike all
other known phyllolepids, Yurammia's
plates had no
external grooves. Young,
Gavin C. (2005). "New
phyllolepids (placoderm fishes) from the...
-
Cobandrahlepis is an
extinct genus of
phyllolepid placoderm found in New
South Wales, Australia. Young,
Gavin C. (2005). "New
phyllolepids (placoderm fishes) from the...
- sandstone. The
Aztec sandstone contains units bearing body
fossils of fish:
Phyllolepid placoderms, and thelodonts,
abundant in fish beds, and conchostracans...
