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    highest of any animal. Fossils of Dunkleosteus have been found in North America, Poland, Belgium, and Morocco. Dunkleosteus fossils were first discovered...
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    vertebrate apex predators such as Eastmanosteus, Dinichthys and the massive Dunkleosteus. Various groups of placoderms were diverse and abundant during the Devonian...
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    including species now assigned to Dunkleosteus, Eastmanosteus, and Titanichthys. Notably, the type species of Dunkleosteus was originally described as Dinichthys...
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    defined as including the type genus Dunkleosteus and all other genera in Dunkleosteoidea more closely related to Dunkleosteus than to Panxiosteus. The phylogeny...
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    genus of dunkleosteid placoderms. It was closely related to the giant Dunkleosteus, but differed from that genus in size, in possessing a distinctive tuberculated...
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    placoderms of the Silurian to Devonian periods, one of which, the 6 m (20 ft) Dunkleosteus, is considered the world's first vertebrate "superpredator", preying...
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    evolution of jawed fish, especially armored placoderms such as the massive Dunkleosteus. The dominance of placoderms in the Devonian ocean forced other fish...
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  • a cameo during the first episode and has a bigger role in episode 3 Dunkleosteus (resembles more of an eel-like creature than in real life, with spikes...
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    vertebrates appear in the Silurian, with giant armoured placoderms such as Dunkleosteus. Jawed fish, too, appeared during the Silurian: the cartilaginous Chondrichthyes...
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    end of the Devonian, arthropods were solidly established on the land. Dunkleosteus, one of the largest armoured fish ever to roam the planet, lived during...
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