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A swampy shore with a wide shore, rudely occupied by a group of croaking Tiktaalik. A couple of placoderms shift through the muck like carp. looks incredibly humid inside.

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2023-03-24

Very crude attempt at figuring gorgonicthys. A placoderm similar in size to dunkleosteus with even larger shearing blades

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2022-10-25

Dunkleosteus terelli, an Orca Sized Placoderm that roam devonian sea.

Dunkleosteus doesn't have any teeth. Instead, it's an extended of it's lower and upper jaw that acts like a teeth.

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2022-10-01

an old reconstruction of the Early Devonian placoderm fish Lunaspis. Named for how its spines resemble a crescent moon 🌙

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2022-09-24

The preserved heart of a ~380 million year old placoderm!

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2022-09-16

Warm-up doodle, prompt Plausible Pokemon. Steelix is evolved from slithering Placoderms that eat enough iron-rich prey for their bone armor to become enameled with shimmering steel. Said armor has fused the fins, which are sharpened against stones.

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2022-09-16

from 2017 for the giant placoderm Titanichthys filters through Devonian seas. This image is featured in my old school "tour-through-time" 2020 book Life Through the Ages II. I had a blast putting LTTAII together, I hope to something like it again someday.

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2022-07-08

For the end, I mix a Placodermi and Amou Haji to make a new character

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2022-04-02

So in a new update of old paleo recons I bring one of the most unusual giant placoderms, Heterosteus, which is known by varied fossil fragments and considerable material, exposing a large sized animal for its time.

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2022-02-23

Found this figure in a paper about the first evidence of claspers in placoderms
The Devonian must have been a wild time

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2021-07-07

Bungartius

An odd placoderm, its related to dunkleosteus but not as closely as it was once believed, its easily recognized by the odd shape of its jaw

ALT: besides its spear like chin its mouth has been compared to a staple remover, with two pairs of sharp blade like teeth

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2021-06-30

Bianchengichthys micros, a new maxillate placoderm from southern China described by . It, along with a few other placoderms, suggests that the origin of all eugnathostomes might be from Vietnam and southern China.
Reconstruction by Qiuyang Zheng.

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2021-06-23

Stensioella

Possibly one of the most basal placoderms, its strange elongated body makes it hard to determine its relations, some think it might be related to chimaeras instead

ALT: similar to gemuendina its armor is like a mosaic made by small scale like tubercles

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2021-06-22

Dunkleosteus terrelli

(Based on the edited skeletal made by Tyler Greenfield)

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2021-06-10

Brindabellaspis

A basal placoderm that seems to be closely related to modern jawed bony fish, and even shares some similarities with basal ostracoderms

ALT: A notable thing about this creature is its elongated snout, which some have compared to that of a platypus

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2021-06-03

Lunaspis

A flat ray like nektonic placoderm with wing like long pectoral spines , it also had small scales around it eyes nose and trunk

ALT: its named after its long pectoral spines, that make it look like a crescent moon, and also make it look relatively similar to a skate

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2021-05-14

Gemuendina

A mid sized placoderm with a size ranging from 30 to 100 cm, it was similar to modern rays but with its face on top of its body instead of under

ALT: its armor was relatively frail being made of a mix of plates and scales, which made fossilization difficult

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2021-05-08