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Ostracoderm

Ostracoderm logo #10101) Agnathan 2) Jawless fish 3) Jawless vertebrate
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Ostracoderm

Ostracoderm logo #21000 Ostracoderms (`shell-skinned`) refers to the armored jawless fishes of the Paleozoic. The term does not often appear in classifications today because it is paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and has no phylogenetic meaning. However, the term is still used as an informal way of loosely grouping together the armored jawless fishes. An innovation of ost.....
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ostracoderm

ostracoderm logo #21003any of an extinct group of small, fishlike Paleozoic vertebrates, members of which belonged to several orders particularly abundant in Late Silurian ... [1 related articles]
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Ostracoderm

Ostracoderm logo #20023Ostracoderms (also called Agnaths) are extinct, primitive, armored, jawless fish that lived during from the Ordovician period to the Devonian period. These vertebrates had bodies that were protected by bony plates and scales. Fossils have been found in North America and Europe. Some ostracoderms include the Pteraspids.
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ostracoderm

ostracoderm logo #20400[n] - extinct fishlike jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body
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ostracoderm

ostracoderm logo #20974 noun extinct fishlike jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
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ostracoderm

ostracoderm logo #21199any of several extinct jawless fishes of the Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods, having the body enclosed in an armor of bony plates.
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