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the different types of fish are shown in this illustration, and each one has its own name

Jawless fish from the Paleozoic: these animals had a bony shield on the head and no jaw. After the appearance of jawed fish these lineage began to decline, until the total disappearance in the Devonian (360 mya).

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Dunkleosteus (meaning "Dunkle's bone") was a large placoderm fish that lived in the late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.[1] It has been estimated to have grew to 4.1 metres (12.3 feet), and was the top predator of its time and the Paleozoic era as a whole. Dunkleosteus belongs to the Placodermi, a large, paraphyletic class of armor-plated fishes likely ancestral to all living gnathostomes. More precisely, it was an arthodire, part of a clade which possessed skulls that…

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This two-part blog post will examine a striking motif of three interlocking fish with one head, which is found in widely varied locations all over the world. This first post looks at examples in Javanese mystical manuscripts; in the second post, the motif will be traced from ancient Egypt through...

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During the Sheinwoodian Age (Early Wenlock, Early Silurian), fish were still mostly jawless. Represented here: Lasanius, Birkenia, Ciderius, Lanarkia, Shielia, Archipelepis, Pezopallichthys, Athenaegis, Ateleaspis , Shuyu, Meishanaspis, Changxingaspis by Nobumichi Tamura

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