Melanosteus

Melanomontanosteus
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Life restoration of Melanomontanosteus occitanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
†Placodermi
Order:
†Arthrodira
Suborder:
†Brachythoraci
Family:
†Selenosteidae
Genus:
†Melanomontanosteus

Prokofiev, 2023[1]
Type species
†Melanomontanosteus occitanus
(Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987)[2]
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
    • Melanosteus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987 (preoccupied by Melanosteus Eisenack, 1942)[3]
Species synonymy
    • Melanosteus occitanus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987

Melanomontanosteus is an extinct genus of selenosteid placoderm that lived during the Late Devonian. It contains one valid species, M. occitanus, known from fossils found in Southern France.

  1. ^ Prokofiev, A.M. (2023). "Replacing two fossil vertebrate names, currently preoccupied (Placodermi and Mammalia)". Munis Entomology & Zoology. 18 (1): 696–697.
  2. ^ Lelièvre, H.; Fiest, R.; Goujet, D.; Blieck, A. (1987). "Les vertébres dévoniens de la Montagne Noire (Sud de la France) et leur apport à la phylogénie des pachyosteomorphes (Placodermes Arthrodires)". Palaeovertebrata. 17 (1): 1–26.
  3. ^ Eisenack, A. (1942). "Die Melanoskleritoiden, eine neue Gruppe silurischer Mikrofossilien aus dem Unterstamm der Nesseltiere". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 23 (1–2): 157–180. Bibcode:1942PalZ...23..157E. doi:10.1007/BF03184419.