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SUBMITTER: Chevrinais M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4360106 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chevrinais Marion M Cloutier Richard R Sire Jean-Yves JY
Biology letters 20150201 2
Since its original description as a chordate, the Late Devonian Scaumenella mesacanthi has been interpreted alternately as a prochordate, a larval ostracoderm and an immature acanthodian. For the past 30 years, these minute specimens were generally considered as decayed acanthodians, most of them belonging to Triazeugacanthus affinis. Among the abundant material of 'Scaumenella', we identified a size series of 188 specimens of Triazeugacanthus based on otolith characteristics. Despite taphonomic ...[more]