Order

Arthrodira Woodward, 1891

Selection of related publications

Plax, D. P., Newman, M. J. 2023. Formal description of Valentinaspis profundus gen. et sp. nov., a placoderm fish and zone fossil from the Emsian of Belarus and Estonia. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 94, 525-532.

Long, J. A., Mark-Kurik, E., Young, G. C. 2014. Taxonomic revision of buchanosteoid placoderms (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of south-eastern Australia and Arctic Russia. Australian Journal of Zoology 62, 1, 26-43. DOI:10.1071/ZO13081

Mark-Kurik, E. 2013. A new Lower Devonian arthrodire (Placodermi) from the NW Siberian Platform. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 62, 3, 131-138. DOI:10.3176/earth.2013.11

Vasiļkova, J., Lukševičs, E., Stinkulis, Ģ., Zupiņš, I. 2012. Taphonomy of the vertebrate bone beds from the Klūnas fossil site, Upper Devonian Tērvete Formation of Latvia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 61, 2, 105-119. DOI:10.3176/earth.2012.2.03

Lebedev, O. A., Mark-Kurik, E., Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V. N., Lukševičs, E., Ivanov, A. 2009. Bite marks as evidence of predation in early vertebrates. Acta Zoologica 90, Suppl. 1, 344-356. DOI:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00344.x

Leleshus, V., Mark-Kurik, E., Karatajūte-Talimaa, V. 2005. Devonian fishes from Tajikistan. Ichthyolith Issues, Special Publication 9, 22-26. St. Petersburg University.

Mark-Kurik, E. 2004. Buchanosteids (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from Central Asia. Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates, pp. 431-438. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil.

Mark-Kurik, E., Young, G. C. 2003. A new Buchanosteid Arthrodire (placoderm fish) from the Early Devonian of the Ural Mountains. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23, 1, 13-27. DOI:10.1671/0272-4634(2003)23[13:ANBAPF]2.0.CO;2

Mark-Kurik, E. 2002. Kartalaspis and other Early Devonian arthrodires and their stratigraphical significance. The Fifth Baltic Stratigraphical Conference "Basin Stratigraphy – Modern Methods and Problems", September 22 – 27, 2002, Vilnus, Lithuania: Extended Abstracts, pp. 117-119. Geological Survey of Lithuania.

Mark-Kurik, E. 2000. The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 223, 309-324.

Nessov L. A., Mark-Kurik, E. 1999. Tropinema, a Middle Devonian arthrodire with high dorsal crest from east Baltic. Materials on the history of the fauna of Eurasia, pp. 58-66.

Mark-Kurik, E. 1991. Contribution to the correlation of the Emsian (Lower Devonian) on the basis of placoderm fishes. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 25, 1, 11-23. DOI:10.1127/nos/25/1991/11

Goujet, G. F. 1984. Placoderm interrelationships: A new interpretation, with a short review of placoderm classifications. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 107, 3, 211-243.

Mark-Kurik, E. 1976. Arthrodire Holonema from the Middle Devonian of Novaya Zemlya. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Keemia, Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Химия. Геология 25, 3, 257-259. DOI:10.3176/chem.geol.1976.3.16

Ritchie, A. 1975. Groenlandaspis in Antarctica, Australia and Europe. Nature 254, 5501, 569-573. DOI:10.1038/254569a0

Ritchie, A. 1973. Wuttagoonaspis gen. nov., an unusual arthrodire from the Devonian of Western New South Wales, Australia. Paleontographica 143, A, 58-72.

Ritchie, A. 1969. Ancient fish of Australia. Australian Natural History 16, 7, 218-223.

Heintz, A. 1967. A new tremataspidid from Ringerike, South Norway. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 47, 311, 55-68. DOI:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1967.tb01395.x

Obrucheva, O. P. 1966. New facts concerning the coccosteids (Placodermi) from the Baltic Devonian. Palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Baltic and the Byelorussia. Number I (VI), pp. 151-189. Mintis.

Vasiliauskas, V. 1963. Phyllolepis tolli sp. nov. and some questions of the stratigraphy of the Famenian deposits in the Baltic Area. The data of the geology of the Lithuania, pp. 407-429. The Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR.

Obrucheva, O. P. 1962. Pancirnye ryby devona SSSR (kokkosteidy i dinihtiidy). pp. 1-188. Izdalel'stvo Moskovskogo Universiteta.

Mark, E. J. 1953. Holonema species from the Middle Devonian of the Estonian SSR. Loodusuurijate Seltsi Juubelikoguteos, pp. 382-396. Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus.

Gross, W. 1933. Die unterdevonischen Fische und Gigantostraken von Overath. Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt 145, 41-77.

List of species

1. Diadsomaspis elongata (Gross, 1937)

2. Eastmanosteus egloni (Obrucheva, 1956) | Dubniki Stage

3. Eastmanosteus pustulosus (Eastman, 1897) | Burtnieki Stage

4. Gyroplacosteus panderi Obrutschev 1932 | Dubniki Stage

5. Holonema obrutshevi Mark, 1953 | Aruküla Stage

6. Holonema radiatum Obruchev, 1932 | Dubniki Stage→Daugava Stage

7. Phlyctaenius pusilla (Gross, 1937)

8. Phyllolepis tolli Vasiliauskas, 1963 | Famennian

9. Plourdosteus livonicus (Eastman, 1896) | Gauja Stage→Plavinas Stage

10. Plourdosteus mironovi (Obruchev, 1933) | Snetnaya Gora Substage

11. Plourdosteus panderi Obrucheva, 1962 | Burtnieki Stage→Gauja Stage

12. Plourdosteus trautscholdi (Eastman, 1897) | Dubniki Stage→Daugava Stage

13. Stipatosteus svidunovitchi Plax et Newman, 2020 | Emsian

14. Tropinema haermae (Mark, 1953) | Burtnieki Stage

15. Valentinaspis profundus Plax et Newman, 2023 | Lower Devonian

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Subphylum	Vertebrata
Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
Class	Placodermi
Order	Acanthothoraci
	Antiarchi
	Arthrodira
Suborder	Actinolepidoidei
	Phlyctaenioidei
Superfamily	Buchanosteoidae
	Dunkleosteoidea
	Eubrachythoraci
Family	Phyllolepidae
Genus	Carolowilhelmina
	Eukaia
	Gyroplacosteus
	Sedowichthys
Order	Euantiarcha
	Euarthrodira
	Petalichthyida
	Ptyctodontida
	Rhenanida
Genus	Hybosteus