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Ostracodermi (lit. 'shell-skins') or ostracoderms is an informal group of vertebrate animals that include all armored jawless fish of the Paleozoic Era. The term does not often appear in classifications today because it is paraphyletic (excluding jawed fishes and possibly the cyclostomes if anaspids are closer to them) and thus does not correspond to one…
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| catfish | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| sturgeon | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| but later realized that they lacked movable jaws | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
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