Sentences with phrase «placoderm fossils»

At the same time, larger placoderm fossils, indicating mature fish, were not found.

With three different types of placoderm fossils discovered at Strud — Grossilepis rikiki, Turrisaspis strudensis and Phyllolepis undulata — it opens a question for scientists like Daeschler.

Daeschler and Olive's work focused largely on comparing the Red Hill site to Strud, noting many similarities between the two and using the size and shape of placoderm fossils from Red Hill, housed at the Academy of Natural Sciences, to establish the relative maturity of samples found in Strud.

Using fragments from three placoderm fossils, Ahlberg was able to piece together some of their musculature.

Not exact matches

The fossil fish Tiktaalik, discovered in 2006, dates back to the same period, and its skeleton bears many more similarities to tetrapods than to the placoderms described in Long's article — including homologous arm bones and shoulder, neck and ear features.

A quarry in Strud, Belgium, that was excavated between 2004 and 2015 yielded fossils of multiple species of placoderms, which are extinct, armored fish that represent some of the earliest jawed vertebrates on Earth.

Fossils inlaid within the rocks in the Cliff area hint at previous inhabitants of the island, consisting of enormous trilobite lookalikes, gastropods, placoderm fish, and eurypterids as well.