Placoderms (from Ancient Greek πλάξ (plax, plakos) 'plate' and δέρμα (derma) 'skin') are vertebrate animals of the class Placodermi, an extinct group of...
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Dunkleosteus (category Placoderms of Africa)
Dunkleosteus consists of ten species, some of which are among the largest placoderms ("plate-skinned") to have ever lived: D. terrelli, D. belgicus, D. denisoni...
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Bothriolepis (category Placoderm genera)
lepis 'scale') was a widespread, abundant and diverse genus of antiarch placoderms that lived during the Middle to Late Devonian period of the Paleozoic...
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and cartilaginous fishes, as well as extinct prehistoric fish such as placoderms and acanthodians. Most gnathostomes have retained ancestral traits like...
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including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. In a break to the long tradition of grouping all fish...
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Evolution of fish (section †Placoderms)
record from the Silurian by two groups of fish: the armoured fish known as placoderms, which evolved from the ostracoderms; and the Acanthodii (or spiny sharks)...
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non-cryptographic hash function mürmur, a New York City podcast Murmur (placoderm), a genus of placoderms Murmuration, a swarming behavior of starlings Mur Murs, documentary...
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connection between the teeth and the original dermal scales. The old placoderms did not have teeth at all, but had sharp bony plates in their mouth. Thus...
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during the Silurian was the diversification of jawed fish, which include placoderms, acanthodians (which gave rise to cartilaginous fish) and osteichthyan...
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class Placodermi. Recent studies indicate that Osteichthyes evolved from placoderms like Entelognathus, while acanthodians are more closely related to modern...
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2025 in paleoichthyology (section Placoderms)
presented in 2025 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described...
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2024 in paleoichthyology (section Placoderms)
presented in 2024 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described...
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2023 in paleoichthyology (section Placoderms)
presented in 2023 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described...
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Xiushanosteus (category Placoderm genera)
Xiushanosteus is a genus of placoderm from the Huixingshao Formation of China. It contains one species, Xiushanosteus mirabilis. It is one of the earliest...
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characteristics are considered homologous characteristics derived from common placoderm ancestors[clarification needed], and present also in basal cartilaginous...
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Microbrachius (category Placoderms of Asia)
Microbrachius is an extinct genus of tiny, advanced antiarch placoderms closely related to the bothriolepids. Specimens range in age from the Lower Devonian...
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This list of placoderms is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be members...
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Actinolepis is an extinct genus of actinolepid placoderm from the Early Devonian. Four species are known: A. magna from Estonia, A. spinosa from Latvia...
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placoderm. Asterolepis A. alticristata NV2K17 locality. Numerous specimens. A placoderm. A. cf. radiata NV2K17 locality. Multiple plates. A placoderm...
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Stensioella (category Placoderm genera)
Stensioella heintzi is an enigmatic placoderm of arcane affinity. It is only known from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück slate of Germany. The genus is named...
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Brindabellaspis (category Placoderm genera)
Brindabellaspis stensioi ("Erik Stensiö's Brindabella Ranges Shield") is a placoderm with a flat, platypus-like snout from the Early Devonian of the Taemas-Wee...
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Qilinyu (category Placoderm genera)
Qilinyu is a genus of early placoderm from the late Silurian (late Ludfordian stage, ~423 Ma) of China. It contains a single species, Qilinyu rostrata...
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Acanthothoraci (category Placoderm orders)
(spine chests) is an extinct group of chimaera-like placoderms closely related to the rhenanid placoderms. Superficially, the acanthoracids resembled scaly...
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Pterichthyodes (category Placoderm genera)
Pterichthyodes is a genus of antiarch placoderm fishes from the Devonian period. Its fossils have been discovered in Scotland. They were one of the first...
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Materpiscis (category Placoderm genera)
Materpiscis (Latin for mother fish) is a genus of ptyctodontid placoderm from the Late Devonian located at the Gogo Formation of Western Australia. Known...
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Rhenanida (category Placoderm orders)
Rhenanida ("Rhine (fish)") is an order of scaly placoderms. Unlike most other placoderms, the rhenanids' armor was made up of a mosaic of unfused scales...
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time, leading the Devonian to be called the Age of Fishes. The armored placoderms began dominating almost every known aquatic environment. In the oceans...
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2022 in paleoichthyology (section Placoderms)
presented in 2022 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described...
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"lower" vertebrates. His studies of placoderms showed them to be related to modern sharks (though, now, placoderms are considered to be the sister group...
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Shoulder girdle (section In placoderms)
clavicle. This muscle acts to elevate the clavicle. A specimen of the placoderm Kolymaspis demonstrates that the shoulder girdle evolved from gill arches...
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