The Taxonomy of the Signathed Fossils

There's a lot of debate about the taxonomy of the modern groups, exactly. A lot of identification for individual lineages and species has to do with the dermal armor. There are lots of convergents, losing certain features or gaining certain features that are not all evolutionarily one lineage. This has led to some of that taxinomic debate, a lack of research as well as the lack of fossils,. But we do still have fossils. Our oldest fossils go back to the eocene, where it was estimated that this group divergedso presumably some of the earliest signathis the early pipe fish like fish. Exactly. We have, not quite roughly ish, 50 million

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