Placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth: a comment on Rücklin &amp; Donoghue (2015)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2016 Australia English Publisher:The Royal SocietyJournal:Biology Letters, volume 12, page 20,160,159 (issn: 1744-9561, eissn: 1744-957X,

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Authors: Carole Burrow; Yuzhi Hu; Gavin Young;

doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0159

pmid: 27677820

pmc: PMC5046911

handle: 1885/205006

Placoderms and the evolutionary origin of teeth: a comment on Rücklin & Donoghue (2015)

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The extinct Devonian placoderms (armoured jawed fishes) [[1][1],[2][2]] are central to the question of tooth origins, because some have denticulate ‘toothplates’ within the mouth cavity. A key question is whether these gnathal plates were modified from external dermal bones, or had ‘denticles

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Palaeontology

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