Gymnotrachelus

Gymnotrachelus
Temporal range: Late Devonian: Famennian,
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
Suborder: Brachythoraci
Family: Selenosteidae
Genus: Gymnotrachelus
Dunkel & Bungart, 1939
Species
  • Gymnotrachelus hydei Dunkle & Bungart, 1939 (type)

Gymnotrachelus is an extinct monospecific genus of large selenosteid arthrodire placoderm of the Late Devonian known from the Late Famennian Cleveland Shale of Ohio. The type species is Gymnotrachelus hydei.