Tityosteus Temporal range:
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Artist's reconstruction of T. rieversi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
Family: | †Homostiidae |
Genus: | †Tityosteus Gross, 1960 |
Species: | †T. rieversi
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Binomial name | |
†Tityosteus rieversi Gross, 1960
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Tityosteus is an extinct genus of homostiid arthrodire from the Early Emsian of the Early Devonian, with fossils known from Germany, the Ibero-Armorican Trough, and southern Siberia.[1] It attained a length of 2.5 meters.[2]