''Eczematolepis'' is an extinct
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
ptyctodontidan from the
Milwaukee Formation of
Wisconsin
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. Three species are known: ''E. fragilis'', ''E. pustulosus'' and ''E. telleri''.
[''Eastman, C. R.'' 1898 B, p. 55, fig. 49. 1899 B, p. 283.] It was originally classified as the genus ''Acantholepis'' but
that name was preoccupied.
References
Ptyctodontids
Givetian extinctions
Placoderm genera
Fossil taxa described in 1892
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