Dunkleosteus is a widely-recognized prehistoric organism, yet its life appearance, paleobiology, and even basic morphology remain poorly understood. A new reconstruction …
Acanthodes has long been the primary source of information on the pharyngeal skeleton of 'acanthodians'. Because of this its anatomy has played a disproportionate role in attempts to …
The mysterious scarcity of 'fish'in an extensive epicontinental sea has always intrigued countless researchers who worked with the South American Devonian, especially in the …
We describe a new genus of symmoriiform chondrichthyan from the Late Mississippian Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas, USA and include this fossil in a phylogenetic analysis of …
Vertebrate macroevolution has been punctuated by fundamental habitat transitions from shallow marine origins to terrestrial, freshwater, and aerial environments. Invasion of the …
Placoderms are an equally diverse and enigmatic group of Devonian vertebrates, which gained fame for the fierce looking apex predator Dunkleosteus (Lehman 1956; Anderson & …