Melanosteus

Melanomontanosteus
Temporal range:
Life restoration of Melanomontanosteus occitanus
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Melanomontanosteus

Prokofiev, 2023
Type species
Melanomontanosteus occitanus
(Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987)
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
    • Melanosteus
      Lelièvre & Goujet in Lelièvre, Feist, Goujet, & Blieck, 1987 (preoccupied by Melanosteus Eisenack, 1942)
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.