Murmur is a genus of placoderm. The type species is Murmur arctatum.[1] It was described from a fossil found within the Beartooth Butte Formation of Wyoming.[3]

Murmur arctatum
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Placodermi
Order: Arthrodira
(unranked): incertae sedis
Genus: Murmur
Whitley, 1951
Species:
M. arctatum
Binomial name
Murmur arctatum
(Bryant 1935)
Synonyms

References

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  1. ^ a b Whitley, G. P. (1949–1950). "New fish names and records" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. 70: 67. ISSN 0373-4129. OCLC 3925828. Retrieved 1 August 2018. Euptychaspis White & Moy-Thomas, Ann. Mag. Hist. (11), vii., 1941, p. 398, preocc. — Murmur, nov. (Acanthaspidae). Type, M. arctatum (Bryant).
  2. ^ White, Errol I.; Moy-Thomas, James Alan (1941). "XXV.—Notes on the Nomenclature of Fossil Fishes.— Part III. Homonyms M-Z". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 11. 7 (40): 398. doi:10.1080/03745481.1941.9727941. ISSN 0374-5481. OCLC 5497152624. Ptychaspis Bryant,1935, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. lxxv. 11. 127, non Hall, 1863, Ann. Rep. N.Y. Cab. xvi. app. D, p.170 (Trilob.), is renamed Euptyehaspis, nom. nov.
  3. ^ a b Bryant, William L. (June 1935). "Cryptaspis and Other Lower Devonian Fossil Fishes from Beartooth Butte, Wyoming". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 75 (2): 127–128. JSTOR 984532.