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Ostracoderms (lit. 's****-skins') are the
armored jawless fish of the
Paleozoic Era. The term does not
often appear in
classifications today because it...
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jawless fish
called the conodonts, and
small mostly armoured fish
known as
ostracoderms,
first appeared. Most
jawless fish are now extinct; but the
extant lampreys...
- sunfish,
giant grouper and all the
other giant bony
fishes alive today.
Ostracoderm -
armoured jawless fish.
Prehistoric fish Zhao, W.; Zhang, X.; Jia, G...
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corresponded to
sharp decline of
jawless fish such as
conodonts and
ostracoderms. The
Silurian system was
first identified by the
Scottish geologist Roderick...
- appeared. It was long
thought that the
first true
vertebrates (fish —
Ostracoderms)
appeared in the Ordovician, but
recent discoveries in
China reveal that...
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earliest fish with
dedicated respiratory gills and
paired fins, the
ostracoderms, had
heavy bony
plates that
served as
protective exoskeletons against...
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vertebrates or, at any rate, for the
ensemble of all
ostracoderms and the gnathostomes.
Other ostracoderms, such as the
Galeaspida are now
known to have a...
- the
former group very
abundant (especially goniatites).
Trilobites and
ostracoderms decline,
while jawed fishes (placoderms, lobe-finned and ray-finned bony...
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consisting of both
living (cyclostomes) and
extinct (conodonts, anaspids, and
ostracoderms,
among others).
Among recent animals,
cyclostomes are
sister to all vertebrates...
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Textbook of
Zoology Vertebrates pp 164–202
Woodward AS (1900). "On a new
Ostracoderm (Euphanerops longaevus) from the
Upper Devonian of
Scaumenac Bay, Province...
