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# Class: Placodermi (armored jawed vertebrates)
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta >
Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata
(vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
In southern Africa, placoderms have been recorded from Early
Devonian (in the Lower Bokkeveld shales) and from Late Devonian strata.
Publications
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Anderson, M.E., Almond, J.E., Evans, F.J., Long, J.A. 1999.
Devonian (Emsian-Eifelian) fish from the Lower Bokkeveld Group (Ceres
Subgroup), South Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences 29 (1): 179–194.
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Long, J.A., Anderson, M.E., Gess, R., Hiller, N. 1997. New
placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of South Africa. Journal of
Vertebrate Palaeontology 17: 253–268.
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