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Märss et al., 2007a

"Agnatha" II. Thelodonti

Märss, T., Turner, S., Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V.
Year2007
BookHandbook of Paleoichthyology
PublisherVerlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil
Publisher placeMünchen
Volume1B
Pages1-143
Typebook
Estonian author
LanguageEnglish
Id915

Abstract

This handbook in the series created by Oskar Kuhn and managed since the 1970s by Professor Dr Hans-Peter Schultze is the definitive text on thelodonts, both articulated and isolated scales with references up to around 2006. These jawless agnathans are placed within a phylogenetic framework as members of the Craniata and Euvertebrata as close to the gnathostomes. They originate in the mid-late Ordovician and the last known species are now known from the late Devonian (mid-Famennian). The scales are biostratigraphically important and the basis for international Silurian and Devonian microvertebrate schemes. Thelodonts have been found in a range of palaeoenvironments from freshwater to marine. Susan Turner, April 2018.

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