Maideria Temporal range: Givetian
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Infraorder: | Coccosteina
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Genus: | Maideria
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Species: | M. falipoui
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Maideria falipoui Lelièvre 1995[1]
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Maideria falipoui is a long-snouted brachythoracid arthrodire placoderm from the Lower Middle Givetian epoch of Middle Devonian South Morocco, in what is now the Anti-Atlas Mountains. Although M. falipoui superficially resembles Buchanosteus, albeit with an elongated snout or rostrum, M. falipoui is considered to be a basal member of the group Coccosteina, thus, it has not yet been given any familial ranking.