Rhachiosteus

Rhachiosteus
Temporal range: Devonian: Givetian - Frasnian,
Artist's reconstruction of Rhachiosteus (with Trematosteus in the background)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Suborder: Brachythoraci
Clade: Eubrachythoraci
Clade: Pachyosteomorphi
Genus: Rhachiosteus
Gross, 1938
Species
  • Rhachiosteus pterygiatus Gross, 1938 (type)

Rhachiosteus is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm from the Middle to Late Devonian of Germany. It is known only from a single specimen, which may be a larval or juvenile form, as the skull of said specimen is only 19 millimetres long.