Dunkleosteus

Translingual

†Dunkleosteus terrelli skull reconstruction

†Dunkleosteus terrelli (bottom fish) restoration and size comparison

Life restorations of three species

Etymology

From English Dunkle (“surname”) + Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”), named in honour of David Dunkle, former curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Proper noun

†Dunkleosteus

1. A taxonomic genus within the family †Dunkleosteidae – certain large placoderm fish that lived during the Late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – domain; Animalia – kingdom; Eumetazoa, Bilateria – subkingdoms; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; †Placodermi – class; †Arthrodira – order; †Brachythoraci – suborder; †Dunkleosteoidea – superfamily; †Dunkleosteidae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): †Dunkleosteus amblyodoratus, †Dunkleosteus belgicus †Dunkleosteus denisoni, †Dunkleosteus magnificus, †Dunkleosteus marsaisi, †Dunkleosteus missouriensis, †Dunkleosteus newberryi, †Dunkleosteus raveri, †Dunkleosteus terrelli (type species), †Dunkleosteus tuderensis – extinct species

References

• Dunkleosteus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dunkleosteus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Dunkleosteus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons