The systematics of the Mongolepidida (Chondrichthyes) and the Ordovician origins of the clade

The Mongolepidida is an Order of putative early chondrichthyan fish, originally erected to unite taxa from the Lower Silurian of Mongolia. The present study reassesses mongolepid systematics through the examination of the developmental, histological and morphological characteristics of scale-based s...

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Main Authors: Plamen Andreev, Michael I. Coates, Valentina Karatajūtė-Talimaa, Richard M. Shelton, Paul R. Cooper, Nian-Zhong Wang, Ivan J. Sansom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-06-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/1850.pdf