ASTEROLEPIDIFORMES

Russian Federation 1990
Ostracoderm Fish
Thyestes
(Thyestiidae)
(ASTEROLEPIDIFORMES)


Bothriolepis
Bothriolepis
(Bothriolepidae)
(ASTEROLEPIDIFORMES)


Armored fish includes the member of Agnatha and Placodermi with the original fish of the Paleozoic era when it wrapped a body in hard armor. These fish do not yet hold the full-scale chin in the proper bone either. Bothriolepis gets into (from 367,000,000 years to 362,500,000 years before), the inland water system of each continent where most were still not separated by water in those days in the latter period in Devonian period, and higher than 25 kinds are known for armored fish of the typical Placodermi which was able to polish development very much from Eurasia, North America, Australia, the South Pole.

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