Stensioella Temporal range:
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Cast of specimen from Hunsrück, Budenbach, Germany. | |
Reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | †Placodermi |
Order: | †Stensioellida Romer, 1945 |
Family: | †Stensioellidae Berg, 1940 |
Genus: | †Stensioella Broili, 1933 |
Species: | †S. heintzi
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Binomial name | |
†Stensioella heintzi Broili, 1933
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Stensioella heintzi is an enigmatic placoderm of arcane affinity. It is only known from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück slate of Germany. The genus is named after Erik Stensiö, the species name honours Anatol Heintz.