File:Pteraspis crouchi (fossil fish) (Lower Devonian; Herefordshire, England) (34234547416).jpg
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Pteraspis crouchi Lankester, 1865 - fossil fish from the Lower Devonian of Britain. (FMNH PF1424, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA) Orientation: dorsal view of head shield; anterior is the left. Pteraspis is a fossil jawless fish with significant bony armour. The earliest fish lacked jaws. The first jawed fish are Ordovician in age, but they didn't become common until the Devonian. Jaws appeared by evolutionary modification of the anterior set of gill arches. Jawed fish have fewer pairs of gill arches than jawless fish. A few jawless fish still exist in modern oceans - hagfishes and lampreys. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Agnatha, Heterostraci, Pteraspidiformes, Pteraspididae Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed site in Herefordshire County, western England, southern Britain See info. at: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteraspis" rel="nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteraspis</a> |
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| Author | James St. John |
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