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    highest of any animal. Fossils of Dunkleosteus have been found in North America, Poland, Belgium, and Morocco. Dunkleosteus fossils were first discovered...
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    vertebrate apex predators such as Eastmanosteus, Dinichthys and the massive Dunkleosteus. Various groups of placoderms were diverse and abundant during the Devonian...
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    including species now assigned to Dunkleosteus, Eastmanosteus, and Titanichthys. Notably, the type species of Dunkleosteus was originally described as Dinichthys...
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    defined as including the type genus Dunkleosteus and all other genera in Dunkleosteoidea more closely related to Dunkleosteus than to Panxiosteus. The phylogeny...
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    evolution of jawed fish, especially armored placoderms such as the massive Dunkleosteus. The dominance of placoderms in the Devonian ocean forced other fish...
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    placoderms of the Silurian to Devonian periods, one of which, the 6 m (20 ft) Dunkleosteus, is considered the world's first vertebrate "superpredator", preying...
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    genus of dunkleosteid placoderms. It was closely related to the giant Dunkleosteus, but differed from that genus in size, in possessing a distinctive tuberculated...
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    vertebrates appear in the Silurian, with giant armoured placoderms such as Dunkleosteus. Jawed fish, too, appeared during the Silurian: the cartilaginous Chondrichthyes...
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    Eastern North America, and possibly Europe. Many of the species approached Dunkleosteus in size and build. Unlike its relative, however, the various species...
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  • a cameo during the first episode and has a bigger role in episode 3 Dunkleosteus (resembles more of an eel-like creature than in real life, with spikes...
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    Craniata, including this placoderm fish (Dunkleosteus sp.), are characterized by the presence of a cranium, mandible, and other facial bones....
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    end of the Devonian, arthropods were solidly established on the land. Dunkleosteus, one of the largest armoured fish ever to roam the planet, lived during...
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    November 2006). "Feeding mechanics and bite force modelling of the skull of Dunkleosteus terrelli, an ancient apex predator". Biology Letters. pp. 77–80. doi:10...
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    New Method of Body Length Estimation Suggests Much Smaller Sizes for Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)". Diversity. 15 (3): 318. doi:10.3390/d15030318...
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    The placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from the Devonian period...
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  • 2018. "Dunkleosteus terrelli". Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2021-03-11. Dunkleosteus terrelli...
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    Devonian period (395 to 345 Mya) brought in such giants as the placoderm Dunkleosteus, which could grow up to seven meters long, and early air-breathing fish...
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  • him immortal, but Kubo refuses. The Moon King transforms into a giant Dunkleosteus-like dragon, the Moon Beast, and pursues Kubo and the remaining villagers...
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    well-armoured fishes with flattened bodies. The largest member of this group, Dunkleosteus, was a true superpredator of the latest Devonian period, reaching as...
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  • they have the longest natural lifespans compared to any other species.) Dunkleosteus (resembles more of an eel-like creature than in real life, with spikes...
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    each other. Overall the creature looked similar to its gigantic cousin Dunkleosteus, save that its eyes were closer to the end of its snout than in its larger...
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    skin of the animal once the velvet is shed. The extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws. The proportion of...
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    early fish. Fish jaws surface in species of the large arthrodire genus Dunkleosteus (fl. 382–358 million years ago), which crushed prey with their quickly...
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  • featured a huge diversification of fish, including armored fish like Dunkleosteus and lobe-finned fish which eventually evolved into the first tetrapods...
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    tip of the point near the shore of Lake Huron. A fragmentary fossil Dunkleosteus, named D. amblyodoratus or 'blunt spear', was found there. Spherical...
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  • ostracoderms, as well as jawed fish such as the armored placoderms (e.g. Dunkleosteus), the spiny acanthodians and early bony fish. The Devonian also saw the...
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    sizes evolved during the early Paleozoic, such as the titanic placoderm Dunkleosteus, which could grow 7 meters (23 ft) long. The diversity of life forms...
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    and palaeoniscinoids ray-finned fishes. The giant predatory placoderms Dunkleosteus terrelli, Gorgonichthys clarki, Gymnotrachelus hydei, Heintzichthys gouldii...
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  • the vertebrates with a path to dominance. In the Devonian, a family of Dunkleosteus, one of the largest new vertebrates, hunts ammonoids using a vital new...
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  • different types of dinosaurs, such as the stegosaurus, paravians, and dunkleosteus. Their fused nature appears to be based on inaccurate reconstructions...
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