Placodermi

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Noun1.Placodermi - extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws
class Placodermi
Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
placoderm - fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform.
A new species of the antiarch Microbrachius from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) of Belarus
Class PLACODERMI M'Coy, 1848 Order ARTHRODIRA Woodward, 1891 Family DUNKLEOSTEIDAE Stensio, 1963 Genus Dunkleosteus Lehman, 1956
A large Late Devonian arthrodire (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from Poland
A new groenlandaspidid arthrodire (Vertebrata: Placodermi) from the Famennian of Belgium.
New finds of fishes in the lower uppermost Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Central Russia and habitats of the Khovanshchinian vertebrate assemblages
Placodermi. Handbook of Paleoichthyology (Schultze, H.-P., ed.).
A new lower Devonian arthrodire (Placodermi) from the NW Siberian Platform/Uus alam-Devoni artrodiir (Placodermi) Siberi Platvormi loodeosast
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