The Fossil Record Shows That the Jawed Fishes Called ____

question 90

Multiple Choice

The fossil record shows that the jawed fishes called ____, which diversified in the Devonian and Carboniferous periods but left no direct descendants, had heads covered with large, heavy, bony plates and jaws with sharp cutting edges.

• A) acanthodians
• B) conodonts
• C) osteolepiforms
• D) placoderms
• E) ostracoderms

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