Golshanichthys Temporal range: Late Devonian: Frasnian,
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Arthrodira |
Suborder: | †Brachythoraci |
Family: | †Dunkleosteidae |
Genus: | †Golshanichthys Lelièvre et al., 1981 |
Type species | |
Golshanichthys asiatica Lelièvre et al., 1981
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Golshanichthys is an extinct monospecific genus of dunkleosteid from the Late Devonian: Frasnian stage from Kerman, Iran.
Golshanichthys belongs to the family Dunkleosteidae, closely related to the giant Dunkleosteus.[1][2] The phylogeny of Golshanichthys can be shown in the cladogram below:[2]
Alternatively, the subsequent 2016 Zhu et al. study using a larger morphological dataset recovered Panxiosteidae well outside of Dunkleosteoidea, leaving the status of Dunkleosteidae as a clade grouping separate from Dunkleosteoidea in doubt, as shown in the cladogram below:[3]