Name: Tubonasus.
Phonetic: Tu-bo-nay-sus.
Named By: K. Dennis & R. A. Miles
- 1979.
Classification: Chordata, Placodermi,
Arthrodira, Camuropiscidae.
Species: T. lennardensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unavailable.
Known locations: Australia - Gogo Formation.
Time period: Late Devonian.
Fossil representation: Partial remains.
Tubonasus is a genus of arthrodire placoderm fish that lived in Australia during the Late Devonian. Tubonasus is noted for having a long snout, however, Tubonasus did not take this to the extreme like in some genera such as Rolfosteus.
Further reading
- Eubrachythoracid arthrodires with tubular rostra1 plates from
Gogo, Western Australia. - Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society 67: 297–328. - K. Dennis & R. A.
Miles - 1979.