Main Late Devonian placoderm taxa known from the Holy Cross Mountains are characterised. The distribution of the Late Devonian placoderm fossils is described. Variation in their occurrences depend on the sedimentation environment of the rocks which contain fossils of this group. Connections between the Holy Cross Mountains placoderms development and the synsedimentary tectonic processes active in this area during the Late Devonian is discussed, and the local faunas compared to classic assemblages of the same age from Latvia.
The paper indicates a similarity between remains of various Palaeozoic fishes thus hindering identification of fossil of Antiarcha—rare placoderms in the Holy Cross Mountains. A comparison of the vertebrate fossil assemblage from Lode Famennian delta deposits in Latvia with that from the Lower Devonian “Placoderm Sandstone” of the Podłazie hill in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) shows their similarity. It indicates a fluvial (?deltaic) origin of the “Placoderm Sandstone” from Podłazie. Additionally, fragmentary antiarch plates are revealed from the Frasnian of the Wietrznia Quarry in Kielce (Holy Cross Mountains).
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