Precise occlusion and trophic niche differentiation indicate specialized feeding in Early Devonian jawed vertebrates
Acanthodians may represent a paraphyletic assemblage of stem chondrichthyans, stem osteichthyans, stem gnathostomes, or some combination of the three. One of the difficulties in determining the phylogenetic affinities of this group of mostly small, spiny fishes is that several subgroups of acanthodi...
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Canadian Science Publishing
2017-06-01
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| Series: | FACETS |
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| Online Access: | http://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2016-0030 |