| Palaeomylus | |
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| Palaeomylus upper and lower tooth plates from two similarly sized individuals fromWisconsin andOhio. | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | †Placodermi |
| Order: | †Ptyctodontida |
| Family: | †Ptyctodontidae |
| Genus: | †Palaeomylus Woodward, 1891[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Palaeomylus frangens (Newberry, 1878) | |
Palaeomylus (meaning 'ancient grinder') is an extinctDevonianptychodontidplacoderm fish.
There are seven species accepted in this genus:[1][2]
The generic name is derived fromGreek (Palaeo, meaning "ancient") and (mylos, meaning "grinder").
Not to be confused with the juniorhomonymPalaeomylus(Meng, Wyss, Hu, Wang, Bowen & Koch, 2005), which is an early diverging member of the mammal groupGlires.[3]
P. greenei,P. crassus, and the type speciesP. frangens were originally classified as a species ofRhynchodus, before being moved to a new genus,Palaeomylus, in 1891. The first was found in Wisconsin, while the latter two species were found in Ohio.P. predator was found nearGerolstein, Germany.[4]
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