''Radotina'' is an extinct genus of
placoderm
Placoderms (from Ancient Greek πλάξ 'plax'', ''plakos'''Plate (animal anatomy), plate' and δέρμα 'derma'''skin') are vertebrate animals of the class (biology), class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Pal ...
from the early
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...
of
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
.
References
* Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals by Don Lessem and Jan Sovak
External links
Scientists Trace the Origin of Our Teeth to Primitive Fish More Than 400 Million Years Back in Time On: ScitechDaily. Source: European Synchrotron Radiation Facility. July 12, 2020
* Valéria Vaškaninová, Donglei Chen, Paul Tafforeau, Zerina Johanson, Boris Ekrt, Henning Blom and Per Erik Ahlberg:
Marginal dentition and multiple dermal jawbones as the ancestral condition of jawed vertebrates. In: Science. 10 July 2020.
doi:10.1126/science.aaz9431
Acanthothoracids
Placoderms of Europe
Placoderm genera
Fossil taxa described in 1950
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