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Life restoration of Sparalepis tingi (foreground) and other fauna from the Kuanti Formation.
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posted on 2017-03-08, 18:29 authored by Brian Choo, Min Zhu, Qingming Qu, Xiaobo Yu, Liantao Jia, Wenjin ZhaoAlso in the scene are numerous conodont animals, a pair of the maxillate placoderm Entelognathus (middle distance) and two examples of the osteichthyan Megamastax (background), the largest known Silurian vertebrate. Illustration by Brian Choo, released under Creative Commons Attribution Licence CC BY 4.0, 2016.
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pre-Devonian osteichthyanRecent discoveriessimilarityPsarolepiSilurian Xiaoxiang FaunaSouth China blockgnathostome evolutionflank scalesYunnanspine-bearing pectoral girdleKuanti Formationphylogenetic analysisLudlow-aged Kuanti Formationrhombic scales sharesventral bulgesGuiyudorsal concavitiesSparalepis tingi genosteichthyan fossils
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