Placoderms, the most diverse group of Devonian fishes, were globally distributed in all
habitable freshwater and marine environments, like teleost fishes in the modern fauna. Their …

Take your knowledge of fishes to the next level Fishes of the World, Fifth Edition is the only
modern, phylogenetically based classification of the world's fishes. The updated text offers …

Newly discovered pelvic and reproductive structures within placoderms, representing some
of the most crownward members of the gnathostome stem group and the most basal jawed …

The phylogeny of early gnathostomes provides an important framework for understanding
one of the most significant evolutionary events, the origin and diversification of jawed …

Phylonyms is an implementation of PhyloCode, which is a set of principles, rules, and
recommendations governing phylogenetic nomenclature. Nearly 300 clades-lineages of …

The role of teeth and jaws, as innovations that underpinned the evolutionary success of
living jawed vertebrates, is well understood, but their evolutionary origins are less clear. The …

A series of recent studies recovered consistent phylogenetic scenarios of jawed vertebrates,
such as the paraphyly of placoderms with respect to crown gnathostomes, and antiarchs as …

Newly discovered fossils from the Silurian and Devonian periods are beginning to challenge
embedded perceptions about the origin and early diversification of jawed vertebrates …

The vertebrate dermal skeleton has long been interpreted to have evolved from a primitive
condition exemplified by chondrichthyans. However, chondrichthyans and osteichthyans …

The earliest Actinoptergyii (ray-finned fishes) and Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes) have
been studied intensely, and a consistent picture of interrelationships has begun to emerge …