Data from: Characterization of the placoderm (Gnathostomata) assemblage from the tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian)

The placoderm fauna of the late Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of
Strud, Belgium, is studied on the basis of historical and newly collected
material. It includes the previously described antiarch Grossilepis
rikiki, the groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis strudensis sp. nov. and the
actinolepidoideid Phyllolepis undulata. P. undulata is thoroughly
described and joins the list of the valid Phyllolepis species confidently
diagnosed. A morphometrical analysis performed on the centronuchal and
anterior ventrolateral plates of the Phyllolepis material demonstrates
that there is only one species of Phyllolepis in Belgium (thus,
Phyllolepis konincki becomes a junior synonym of P. undulata), that P.
rossimontina (Pennsylvania) is a synonym of P. undulata and that the unity
of the genus Phyllolepis is strongly supported, although the
characterization of several species within this genus is blurred. The
strong resemblance between the faunal compositions in Strud and Red Hill
(Pennsylvania, USA) suggests important faunal exchanges between these
regions of the Euramerica landmass.