Placodermi - Arthrodira - Dunkleosteidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 259735

Full reference: R. K. Carr and W. J. Hlavin. 2010. Two new species of Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956, from the Ohio Shale Formation (USA, Famennian) and the Kettle Point Formation (Canada, Upper Devonian), and a cladistic analysis of the Eubrachythoraci (Placodermi, Arthrodira). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159(1):195-222

Belongs to Dunkleosteus according to R. K. Carr and W. J. Hlavin 2010

Sister taxon: Dunkleosteus amblyodoratus

Type specimen: MCZ 13277, a skull. Its type locality is Rye Beach Roac, which is in a Famennian marine shale in the Ohio Shale Formation of Ohio.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore