Campbellodus

Taxobox
name = "Campbellodus"
fossil_range = Late Devonian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Placodermi
ordo = Ptyctodontida
genus = "Campbellodus"

"Campbellodus" (meaning "Campbell's tooth") is an extinct genus of ptyctodontid placoderm fish that lived around 380 million years ago (Late Devonian). Its fossil remains have been found preserved in perfect 3-d form from the Gogo Formation of Western Australia. Originally it was described from large tooth plates and isolated skull roof bones by Miles & Young (1977). Long (1995) restored the complete fish based on new material found at Gogo in the mid 1980s, and described by Long (1997).

"Campbellodus" has very short spinal plates, and is unusual in having a high dorsal spine formed by three median dorsal plates. The tooth plates are very robust and the upper plate has a high anterior spine.

Sources

* Long, J.A. 1995. "The Rise of Fishes - 500 Million Years of Evolution". Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 230pp.
* Long, J.A. 1997. "Ptyctodontid fishes (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Late Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia, with a revision of the European genus Ctenurella Orvig, 1960". Geodiversitas 19(3): 515-555.
* Miles, R.S. & Young, G.C. 1977. "Placoderm interrelationships reconsidered in the light of new ptyctodontids from Gogo, Western Australia". Linnean Society of London, Symposium Series 4: 123-198.