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Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep time, aquatic ancestors.

Many animals can reshape and shed their teeth – and now scientists have traced this ability back 380 million years #Bullerichthys #GogoFormation #Devonian

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This work was led by Kate Trinajstic, with co-authors Zerina Johanson, Carole Burrow, Moya Meredith Smith, John Long, Alice Clement, Brian Choo, Anton Maksimenko & Vincent Dupret, and supported by ARC funding (DP1092870, DP140104161, DP220100825, DP240102156)

#GogoFormation #arthrodire #dentition

CT scanning an exciting new Gogo arthrodire (placoderm) specimen with new PhD student Austin at Flinders Tonsley CT lab yesterday #palaeontology #GogoFormation #placoderm

Check out our preprint comparing #Devonian #palaeoecology and #communityassembly to modern #ecosystems : "Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late Devonian to present" #GogoFormation #Miguasha
Available on biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...