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noun - fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body
PLACODERM - Placodermi (from the Greek = plate and = skin, literally "plate-skinned") is an extinct class of armoured prehistoric fish, known from fossils, whi...
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Any of various extinct fishes of the Silurian and Devonian periods, characterized by bony plates of armor covering the head and flanks, hinged jaws, and paired fins. |
fishlike vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws |
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Placodermi (from the Greek = plate and = skin, literally "plate-skinned") is an extinct class of armoured prehistoric fish, known from fossils, which lived from the Silurian to the end of the Devonian period. Their head and thorax were covered by articulated armoured plates and the rest of the body was scaled or naked, depending on the species. Placoderms were among the first jawed fish; their jaws likely evolved from the first of their gill arches. Placoderms are paraphyletic, and consist of several distinct outgroups or sister taxa to all living jawed vertebrates, which originated among their ranks. This is illustrated by a 419-million-year-old fossil, Entelognathus, from China, which is the only known placoderm with a type of bony jaw like that found in modern bony fishes. This includes a dentary bone, which is found in humans and other tetrapods. The jaws in other placoderms were simplified and consisted of a single bone. Placoderms were also the first fish to develop pelvic fins |