Tapinosteus
{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| fossil_range = Late Devonian: Frasnian, {{Fossil range|382.7|372.2}}
| display_parents = 4
| taxon = Tapinosteus
| authority = Stensiö, 1963
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- Tapinosteus heintzi Stensiö, 1963 (type)
}}
Tapinosteus is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm from the Late Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian period. Fossils are found from Bad Wildungen, Germany.{{Cite journal |last1=Zhu |first1=You-An |last2=Zhu |first2=Min |last3=Wang |first3=Jun-Qing |date=1 April 2016 |title=Redescription of Yinostius major (Arthrodira: Heterostiidae) from the Lower Devonian of China, and the interrelationships of Brachythoraci |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=176 |issue=4 |pages=806–834 |doi=10.1111/zoj.12356|issn=0024-4082 |doi-access=free }}
Phylogeny
Tapinosteus is a basal member of the clade Aspinothoracidi, which belongs to the clade Pachyosteomorphi, one of the two major clades within Eubrachythoraci. The cladogram below shows the phylogeny of Tapinosteus:
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|label2=Pachyosteomorphi
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|label1=Dunkleosteoidea
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|2=Kiangyousteus yohii }}
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|2=Dunkleosteus terrelli }}
|2={{clade
|label2=Heterostiidae
|2={{clade
|2=Yinosteus major }} }} }} }} }} }} }}
|label2=Aspinothoracidi
|2={{clade
|1=Tapinosteus heintzi
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|2={{clade
|2=Bruntonichthys multidens }} }}
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|label2=Selenosteidae
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|2=Rhinosteus parvulus }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }} }}
References
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