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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...
- including species now ****igned to Dunkleosteus, Eastmanosteus, and Titanichthys. Notably, the type species of Dunkleosteus was originally described as Dinichthys...
- 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...
- defined as including the type genus Dunkleosteus and all other genera in Dunkleosteoidea more closely related to Dunkleosteus than to Panxiosteus. The phylogeny...
- genus of dunkleosteid placoderms. It was closely related to the giant Dunkleosteus, but differed from that genus in size, in possessing a distinctive tuberculated...
- well-armoured fishes with flattened bodies. The largest member of this group, Dunkleosteus, was a true superpredator of the latest Devonian period, reaching as...
- vertebrates appear in the Silurian, with giant armoured placoderms such as Dunkleosteus. Jawed fish, too, appeared during the Silurian: the cartilaginous Chondrichthyes...
- 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...
- placoderms that lived during the Devonian period. The gigantic apex predator Dunkleosteus terrelli is the best known member of this group. Eubrachythoraci is divided...