Placoderms (from Greek πλάξ (plax, plakos) 'plate' and δέρμα (derma) 'skin') are members of the class Placodermi, a group of prehistoric fish known from...

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...

Actinolepis is an extinct genus of actinolepid placoderm from the Early Devonian. Four species are known: A. magna from Estonia, A. spinosa from Latvia...

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...

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)...

thought to have lacked pectoral or pelvic fins. In addition to this, some placoderms (extinct fish with bony plates) were shown to have a third pair of paired...

characteristics are considered homologous characteristics derived from common placoderm ancestors[clarification needed], and present also in basal cartilaginous...

including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians. Most fish are cold-blooded, their body temperature varying...

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...

research presented in 2024 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes...

leading the Devonian to often be dubbed the Age of Fishes. The armored placoderms began dominating almost every known aquatic environment. In the oceans...

fishes have been described from the Hunsruck slate. Several genera of placoderm armoured fish have been recorded, including some preserved in three dimensions...

lepis 'scale') was a widespread, abundant and diverse genus of antiarch placoderms that lived during the Middle to Late Devonian period of the Paleozoic...

goniatites). Trilobites and ostracoderms decline, while jawed fishes (placoderms, lobe-finned and ray-finned bony fish, and acanthodians and early cartilaginous...

Wenjin; Jia, Liantao; Lu, Jing (21 October 2016). "A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution". Science. 354 (6310): 334–336. Bibcode:2016Sci...

Titanichthys is an extinct genus of giant, aberrant marine placoderm from shallow seas of the Late Devonian of Morocco, Eastern North America, and possibly...

during the Silurian was the diversification of jawed fish, which include placoderms, acanthodians (which gave rise to cartilaginous fish) and osteichthyan...

of the first fish to have jaws were the armoured and mainly predatory placoderms of the Silurian to Devonian periods, one of which, the 6 m (20 ft) Dunkleosteus...

bonytongue fish of the family Osteoglossidae Draconichthys, an arthrodire placoderm named after Stomiid dragonfishes Dragonfish (novel), a 2015 novel by Vu...

class Placodermi. Recent studies indicate that Osteichthyes evolved from placoderms like Entelognathus, while acanthodians are more closely related to modern...

groups of placoderms. Arthrodire placoderms are notable for the movable joint between armor surrounding their heads and bodies. Like all placoderms, they...

Devonian fishes, including an early shark Cladoselache, Eusthenopteron and other lobe-finned fishes, and the placoderm Bothriolepis (Joseph Smit, 1905)....

Bothriolepidoidei is a suborder of antiarch placoderm fishes. The group is considered paraphyletic. The cladogram is taken from Bothriolepid antiarchs...

conodonts and ostracoderms, as well as jawed fish such as the armored placoderms (e.g. Dunkleosteus), the spiny acanthodians and early bony fish. The Devonian...

Melanomontanosteus is an extinct genus of selenosteid placoderm that lived during the Late Devonian. It contains one valid species, M. occitanus, known...

of its body, which is not common in other fish (Tarrasius, Mandageria, placoderms and extant seahorses being some exceptions; see also Lepidogalaxias and...

probably originally evolved in the Silurian period and appeared in the Placoderm fish which further diversified in the Devonian. The two most anterior...

(spine chests) is an extinct group of chimaera-like placoderms closely related to the rhenanid placoderms. Superficially, the acanthoracids resembled scaly...

A placoderm...

research presented in 2022 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes...