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  2. Devonian - Wikipedia

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    The Devonian (/ dəˈvoʊni.ən, dɛ -/ də-VOH-nee-ən, deh-) [9][10] is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at 419.2 million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at 358.9 Ma. [11]

  3. Dunkleosteus - Wikipedia

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    Dunkleosteus. Dunkleosteus is an extinct genus of large arthrodire ("jointed-neck") fish that existed during the Late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago. It was a pelagic fish inhabiting open waters, and one of the first apex predators of any ecosystem. [1]

  4. Evolution of fish - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of fish. The Devonian period (419–359 Mya), also known as the Age of Fishes, saw the development of early sharks, armoured placoderms and various lobe-finned fish, including the tetrapod transitional species. The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion. It was during this time that the early ...

  5. Timeline of fish evolution - Wikipedia

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    See Category:Devonian fish. D e v o n i a n: Early Devonian: Early Devonian (419–393 Ma): Psarolepis: Psarolepis (speckled scale) is a genus of extinct lobe-finned fish that lived around 397 to 418 Ma. Fossils of Psarolepis have been found mainly in South China and described by paleontologist Xiaobo Yu in 1998.

  6. Gogonasus - Wikipedia

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    Gogonasus (meaning "snout from Gogo") was a lobe-finned fish known from three-dimensionally preserved 380-million-year-old fossils found from the Gogo Formation in Western Australia. It lived in the Late Devonian period, on what was once a 1,400-kilometre-long (870 mi; 760 nmi) coral reef off the Kimberley coast surrounding the northwest of ...

  7. Tiktaalik - Wikipedia

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    Tiktaalik. Tiktaalik (/ tɪkˈtɑːlɪk /; Inuktitut ᑎᒃᑖᓕᒃ [tiktaːlik]) is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late Devonian Period, about 375 Mya (million years ago), having many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). [1]

  8. Hynerpeton - Wikipedia

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    Hynerpeton hails from the Red Hill fossil site, which, during the Late Devonian, was a warm floodplain inhabited by a diverse ecosystem of aquatic fish and terrestrial invertebrates. Hynerpeton was one of several genera of four-limbed vertebrates known from the site, although it was the first to be discovered.

  9. Doryaspis - Wikipedia

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    Lyktaspis Heintz 1968. Doryaspis (from Greek: δόρῠ dóru 'spear' and Greek: ἀσπίς aspís 'shield') (also known by its synonym, " Lyktaspis ") is an extinct genus of primitive jawless fish that lived in the Devonian period. Fossils have been discovered in Spitsbergen. The animals had canteen-shaped body armor and had large branchial ...

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