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Yurammia

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Yurammia
Temporal range: Late Devonian
Restoration of Y. browni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Family: Phyllolepididae
Genus: Yurammia
Young, 2005
Type species
Yurammia browni
Young, 2005

Yurammia is a placoderm from what is now the Pambula River in New South Wales. Unlike all other known phyllolepids, Yurammia's plates had no external grooves.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Young, Gavin C. (2005). "New phyllolepids (placoderm fishes) from the Middle-Late Devonian of southeastern Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (2): 261–273. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0261:NPPFFT]2.0.CO;2.