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    Bony-fish-like scales in a Silurian maxillate placoderm

    Major groups of jawed vertebrates exhibit contrasting conditions of dermal plates and scales. But the transition between these conditions remains unclear due to rare information on taxa occupying key phylogene...

    **ndong Cui, Matt Friedman, Yilun Yu, You-an Zhu, Min Zhu in Nature Communications (2023)

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    The oldest complete jawed vertebrates from the early Silurian of China

    Molecular studies suggest that the origin of jawed vertebrates was no later than the Late Ordovician period (around 450 million years ago (Ma))1,2. Together with disarticulated micro-remains of putative chondrich...

    You-an Zhu, Qiang Li, **g Lu, Yang Chen, Jianhua Wang, Zhikun Gai, Wen** Zhao… in Nature (2022)

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    The largest Silurian vertebrate and its palaeoecological implications

    An apparent absence of Silurian fishes more than half-a-metre in length has been viewed as evidence that gnathostomes were restricted in size and diversity prior to the Devonian. Here we describe the largest p...

    Brian Choo, Min Zhu, Wen** Zhao, Liaotao Jia, You'an Zhu in Scientific Reports (2014)

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    A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones

    The gnathostome (jawed vertebrate) crown group comprises two extant clades with contrasting character complements. Notably, Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) lack the large dermal bones that characterize Ost...

    Min Zhu, **aobo Yu, Per Erik Ahlberg, Brian Choo, **g Lu, Tuo Qiao, Qingming Qu… in Nature (2013)