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- Entelognathus primordialis (“primordial complete jaw”) is an early placoderm from the late Silurian (Ludlow epoch) of Qujing, Yunnan, 419 million years...
- Recent studies indicate that Osteichthyes evolved from placoderms like Entelognathus, while acanthodians are more closely related to modern chondrichthyes...
- bony fish and tetrapods. Qilinyu, a close relative of Entelognathus that further links Entelognathus as a transitional form between placoderms and other...
- present-day gnathostomes. A 419-million-year-old fossil of a placoderm named Entelognathus had a bony skeleton and anatomical details ****ociated with cartilaginous...
- Xiaoxiang fauna of the Kuanti Formation. Along with its contemporary Entelognathus, Qilinyu is an unusual placoderm showing some traits more similar to...
- are considered to have evolved from acanthodians. The discovery of Entelognathus and several examinations of acanthodian characteristics indicate that...
- paraphyletic ****emblage leading to more derived gnathostomes, the discovery of Entelognathus suggests that placoderms are directly ancestral to modern bony fish...
- characteristics in its braincase. However, a newly described Silurian placoderm, Entelognathus, which has jaw anatomy shared with bony fish and tetrapods, has led...
- oldest known placoderm from the early Silurian (Telychian) of China Entelognathus primordialis was a Placoderm fish from the late Silurian Acacus Sandstone...
- †Entelognathus ...