Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome

Sam Giles, Matt Friedman and Martin D. Brazeau ()
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Sam Giles: University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Matt Friedman: University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3AN, UK
Martin D. Brazeau: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands

Nature, 2015, vol. 520, issue 7545, 82-85

Abstract: A new analysis of a 415-million-year-old fossil fish head originally described as from an early osteichthyan (bony fish) puts it instead as the sister group of the gnathosomes (jawed vertebrates), and suggests that the extinct acanthodians were relatives of cartilaginous fishes.

Date: 2015
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