Parabuchanosteus | |
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An artist's impression ofParabuchanosteus murrumbidgeensis | |
Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
Family: | †Buchanosteidae |
Genus: | †Parabuchanosteus White & Toombs, 1972 |
Species: | †P. murrumbidgeensis |
Binomial name | |
†Parabuchanosteus murrumbidgeensis (White, 1952) | |
Synonyms | |
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Parabuchanosteus murrumbidgeensis is an extinctbuchanosteidarthrodireplacoderm. Its fossils have been found in the LateEmsian-aged marine strata ofNew South Wales,Australia.
It was originally described asBuchanosteus murrumbidgeensis in 1952. Twenty years later, it was reexamined and promoted to a new genus.