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Jawless fish
Jawed fish
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Overview
- Fish
- Evolving
- Cambrian explosion
- Chordates Chordate
- Skull
- Vertebral column
- Craniates Craniate
- Vertebrates Vertebrate
- Agnatha
- Haikouichthys
- Cambrian
- Conodonts Conodont
- Ostracoderms Ostracoderm
- Extinct Extinction
- Lampreys Lamprey
- Cyclostomata
- Hagfish
- Jawed vertebrates Gnathostomata
- Ordovician
- Fossil record
- Silurian
- Placoderms Placodermi
- Spiny sharks Acanthodii
- Chondrichthyes
- Bony fish Osteichthyes
- Actinopterygii
- Sarcopterygii
- Devonian
- Tetrapods Tetrapod
- Amphibians Amphibian
Jawless fish
- Superclass Class (biology)
- Phylum Phylum (biology)
- Ancient Greek
- Fauna
- Early Cambrian
- Maotianshan shales
- China
- Haikouella
- Ostracoderms Ostracodermi
- Thelodonts Thelodonti
- Osteostracans Osteostraci
- Galeaspids Galeaspida
- Paraphyletic Paraphyly
- Stem group
- Monophyletic
- Phylogenetic taxonomy Phylogenetics
- Cladogram
- Evolutionary taxonomy
- Philippe Janvier
- Promissum
- Chordata
- Chevron Chevron (insignia)
- Phylogenetic
- Derived Synapomorphy
- Armoured Armour (zoology)
- Polyphyletic Polyphyly
- Gills Gill
- Respiration Respiration (physiology)
- Operculum Operculum (fish)
- Invertebrates Invertebrate
Jawed fish
- Pharyngeal arches Pharyngeal arch
- Entelognathus
- Bony Bone
- Cartilage
- Teeth
- Buccal pump
- Teleost Teleostei
- Suction feeding
- Jaw protrusion
- Famennian
- Scaled Fish scale
- Acanthothoraci
- Rhenanida
- Antiarchi
- Petalichthyidae
- Ptyctodontida
- Arthrodira
- Epidermis
- Holosteans Holostei
- Gars Gar
- Bowfins Bowfin
- Sharks Shark
- Batoidea
- Chimaeras Chimaera
- Holocephali
- Elasmobranchii
- Cladoselache
- Eugeneodontiformes
- Symmoriida
- Xenacanthiformes
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Important terminology
fish vertebrates devonian bony ostracoderms first lobe-finned early sharks silurian late evolved jawless placoderms known jawed appeared armoured mya conodonts
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| the presence of a backbone | instance of | rather than purely on physical traits | 0.80 | text |
| catfish | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| sturgeons but later | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| realizing that they had no movable jaws | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| classified them in 1844 into a new group | instance of | He compared them at first with extant armored fish | 0.80 | text |
| the coelacanths show a strong similarity to the expected ancestral form of tetrapod limbs | instance of | The fin-limbs of lobe-finned fish | 0.80 | text |
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