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The placoderms are among the most ancient of fish, and, along with the Acanthodii, the only class of (gnathostomes) to become completely extinct. The name "placoderm" is from the Greek and means "tablet + skin", referring to the heavy armoured bony plates that completely covered the head and thorax of these curious prehistoric fish.
Bothriolepis. Late Devonian - worldwide. Length about 20 to 30 cm

With their armored head shield and trunk shield composed of overlapping bony plates, the placoderms appear at first glance extremely similar to the ostracoderms (armoured jawless fish). They are easily distinguished however by their paired fins and presence of jaws, an adaptation that gave them a tremendous advantage over their earlier jawless cousins, for it enabled them to bite solid food rather than simply suck up organic particles from the mud. Yet still these creatures were very primitive compared to other fish. The fourth pair of gill arches had not yet become supports for the jaws, and the backbone consisted of a notochord (an embryonic feature in higher vertebrates) that persisted throughout life and vertebra consisting only of Y-shaped spines above and below it. These were often cartilaginous, like the skeleton of sharks (Chondrichthyes), a group with which the Placoderms are considered to share a common ancestry. Placoderms also lacked teeth, but biting or grinding structures are often be found in the dermal bones lining their mouths. The head and trun...