Associations to the word «Placoderm»

Wiktionary

PLACODERM, noun. A member of an extinct group of fish with armored heads; the group lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods.

Dictionary definition

PLACODERM, noun. Fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws.

Wise words

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