DUNKLEOSTEIDAE STENSIÖ, 1963

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FAMILY DUNKLEOSTEIDAE STENSIÖ, 1963

Type genus

Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956 .

Diagnosis (modified after Carr & Hlavin, 2010) Pachyosteomorphi in which the interolateral plate contacts the spinal plate laterally; the spinal plate does not bear a spinal pit; the posterior ventrolateral plate bears a small postpectoral lamina; the anterior supragnathal plate in dorsal view forms an open ring with an angle of about 90°; and the parasphenoid bears a pair of posterolateral processes. The clade Dunkleosteidae includes Dunkleosteus as its type genus and all other genera in Dunkleosteoidea Vézina, 1990 more closely related to Dunkleosteus than to Panxiosteus .