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Dunkleosteus terrelli, an arthrodire placoderm, is one of the most widely recognized fossil vertebrates due to its large size and status as one of the earliest vertebrate apex predators.
Russell K. Engelman
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A new Lower Devonian arthrodire (Placodermi) from the NW Siberian Platform [PDF]
A new genus and species of arthrodires, Eukaia elongata (Actinolepidoidei, Placodermi), is described from the Lower Devonian, ?Pragian of the Turukhansk region, NW Siberian Platform.
Elga Mark-Kurik
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Evolution of glial wrapping: A new hypothesis
Abstract Animals are able to move and react in numerous ways to external stimuli. Thus, environmental stimuli need to be detected, information must be processed and finally an output decision must be transmitted to the musculature to get the animal moving.
Simone Rey +2 more
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A new assessment of the Late Devonian antiarchan fish Bothriolepis leptocheira from South Timan (Russia) and the biotic crisis near the Frasnian–Famennian boundary [PDF]
The species of the Late Devonian, earliest Famennian placoderm fish Bothriolepis jeremejevi has been downranked to subspecies Bothriolepis leptocheira jeremejevi comb. nov.
Ervīns Lukševičs +2 more
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Placoderms from the Lower Devonian “placoderm sandstone” of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland with biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical implications [PDF]
The siliciclastic sequence of the Lower Devonian of the southern part of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland is renown for abundant vertebrate fossils, including ostracoderm, sarcopterygian, acanthodian, chondrichthyan, and placoderm remains. Study of the
Piotr Szrek, Vincent Dupret
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A Middle-Late Devonian fish fauna from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, South America [PDF]
A new Devonian fossil fish fauna from the region of Caño Colorado between the Rio Palmar and Rio Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela, comes from two localities and several horizons within the Campo Chico Formation, dated on plants and spores as Givetian ...
G. C. Young, J. M. Moody
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Bioerosion in the Late Devonian placoderm remains from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
We report the first occurrence of trace fossils in placoderm bones from the Upper Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains. A taxonomic analysis of three ichnogenera revealed the earliest evidence of Sulculites (ie., Sulculites bellus), characterised by ...
Patrycja G. Dworczak +2 more
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The fragment of the skull cap of placoderm Livnolepis heckeri (Luksevics) from the Bilovo Formation (Famennian, Upper Devonian) near the Bilovo Village of Tver Region has been described.
S. V. Moloshnikov, V. V. Linkevich
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Macropetalichthys rapheidolabis Norwood and Owen, 1846 (Placodermi: Petalichthyida), type species of Macropetalichthys Norwood and Owen, 1846, was based on a single cranial roof from the Devonian of southeastern Indiana.
Loren E. Babcock
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A new tubalepid fish (Antiarcha, Placodermi) from the Middle Devonian of Huize, Yunnan, China
A new genus and species of tubalepid antiarch, Tongdulepis concavus gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Middle Devonian (Qujing Formation, late Eifelian) in Huize County, Qujing, northeastern Yunnan, China.
Yanchao Luo, Zhaohui Pan, Min Zhu
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