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- any animal. Fossils of Dunkleosteus have been found in the United States, Canada, Poland, Belgium, and Morocco. Dunkleosteus fossils were first discovered...
- vertebrate apex predators such as Eastmanosteus, Dinichthys and the m****ive Dunkleosteus. Various groups of placoderms were diverse and abundant during the Devonian...
- largest fish of the now-extinct class Placodermi was the giant predatory Dunkleosteus. The largest and most well known species was D. terrelli, which grew...
- including species now ****igned to Dunkleosteus, Eastmanosteus, and Titanichthys. Notably, the type species of Dunkleosteus was originally described as Dinichthys...
- genus of dunkleosteid placoderms. It was closely related to the giant Dunkleosteus, but differed from that genus in size, in possessing a distinctive tuberculated...
- defined as including the type genus Dunkleosteus and all other genera in Dunkleosteoidea more closely related to Dunkleosteus than to Panxiosteus. The phylogeny...
- well-armoured fishes with flattened bodies. The largest member of this group, Dunkleosteus, was a true superpredator of the latest Devonian period, reaching as...
- placoderms of the Silurian to Devonian periods, one of which, the 6 m (20 ft) Dunkleosteus, is considered the world's first vertebrate "superpredator", preying...
- Eastern North America, and possibly Europe. Many of the species approached Dunkleosteus in size and build. Unlike its relative, however, the various species...
- early fish. Fish jaws surface in species of the large arthrodire genus Dunkleosteus (fl. 382–358 million years ago), which crushed prey with their quickly...