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Jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes

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  • Hector Botella

    (Universitat de València, Dr Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain)

  • Henning Blom

    (Evolutionary Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden)

  • Markus Dorka

    (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstrasse 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany)

  • Per Erik Ahlberg

    (Evolutionary Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Norbyvägen 18A, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden)

  • Philippe Janvier

    (UMR 5143, CNRS, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 47 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
    The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK)

Abstract

Jaws... and teeth There are very few fossils that record the earliest history of jawed vertebrates. Fossil remains of crown-group osteichthyans (bony fishes, including tetrapods) are known as far back as the Silurian (418 million years ago), but tracing the osteichthyans any further has proven difficult. Now Botella et al. report the first unambiguous evidence for osteichthyan characters in two previously known Late Silurian fish (423–416 million years old), demonstrating that they are not only the oldest, but phylogenetically the most primitive osteichthyans known to date.

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  • Hector Botella & Henning Blom & Markus Dorka & Per Erik Ahlberg & Philippe Janvier, 2007. "Jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes," Nature, Nature, vol. 448(7153), pages 583-586, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:448:y:2007:i:7153:d:10.1038_nature05989
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05989
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