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Was the Devonian placoderm
Article in Royal Society open science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Extreme lower jaw elongation in a placoderm reflects high disparity and modularity in early vertebrate evolution.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Increasing morphological disparity and decreasing optimality for jaw speed and strength during the radiation of jawed vertebrates.Science advances · 2022Article
- The diet of early birds based on modern and fossil evidence and a new framework for its reconstruction.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Review
- Evolutionary biomechanics: hard tissues and soft evidence?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- A large Middle Devonian eubrachythoracid 'placoderm' (Arthrodira) jaw from northern Gondwana.Swiss journal of palaeontology · 2021Article
- Was the Devonian placodermRoyal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators for some evolving into feeding on small zooplankton is of interest for understanding the associated shifts in anatomy and behaviour, while the spatial and temporal distribution gives clues to an inherent relationship with ocean primary productivity and how past and future perturbations to these may impact on the different tiers of the food web. The evolution of large nektonic suspension feeders-'gentle giants'-occurred four times among chondrichthyan fishes (e.g. whale sharks, basking sharks and manta rays), as well as in baleen whales (mysticetes), the Mesozoic pachycormid fishes and at least twice in radiodontan stem group arthropods (Anomalocaridids) during the Cambrian explosion. The Late Devonian placoderm
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