CONCLUSIONS

The new interpretation of the relationship between endoskeletal postcranial elements and associated dermal armour and the resulting life reconstruction of C. hildegardis will serve to better understand and explain future findings of cyamodontoid placodonts. It is hypothesised that these new data will have implications for future comparative biomechanical, i.e., on locomotion, and systematic studies of placodonts, especially in comparison to the well preserved cyamodontoids from China.