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The Devonian is an earlier Paleozoic chapter famous for fish diversity. Dunkleosteus was an armored placoderm, not a dinosaur or a shark. Its preserved head armor and reconstructed rear body illustrate the difference between fossil evidence and a complete life restoration.
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