Fossils are ancient organisms’ preserved ... invertebrates, other fish and even other placoderms. Placoderms dominated the aquatic world for more than 200 million years before the first ...

Fossil evidence shows that early jawless vertebrates ... the researchers examined fossilized remains of the ancient placoderm fish Asterolepis ornata and analyzed embryonic development in modern ...

The size and scope of the fossil fish collection continues to increase through donations and fieldwork by ... Fossil taxa include lungfish and other sarcopterygians, a variety of placoderms and ...

The findings come from placoderm fish fossils found in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. This extinct order of fish represents some of our earliest jawed ancestors. If scientific research is ...

They CT scanned a fossil specimen of Bothriolepis canadensis, a placoderm fish with bony head plates that lived in the Late Devonian period about 380 million years ago. The placoderm skeleton had ...

Early placoderms fed on mollusks and other invertebrates ... Some lobefins are still around today, such as the famous "living fossil" fish, the coelacanth. A fossil creature from the Devonian ...