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Ostracodermi
Ostracodermi Os`tra*coder"mi, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? shell of a testacean + ? skin.] (Zo["o]l.) A suborder of fishes of which Ostracion is the type.

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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...
- 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...
- corresponded to sharp decline of jawless fish such as conodonts and ostracoderms. The Silurian system was first identified by the Scottish geologist Roderick...
- earliest fish with dedicated respiratory gills and paired fins, the ostracoderms, had heavy bony plates that served as protective exoskeletons against...
- appeared. It was long thought that the first true vertebrates (fish — Ostracoderms) appeared in the Ordovician, but recent discoveries in China reveal that...
- 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...
- consisting of both living (cyclostomes) and extinct (conodonts, anaspids, and ostracoderms, among others). Among recent animals, cyclostomes are sister to all vertebrates...
- s****" [-i is pl. of -us]) is an extinct subclass of pteraspidomorph, ostracoderm, jawless vertebrate that lived primarily in marine and estuary environments...