Definition of Order Ostracodermi

1. Noun. Extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Ostracodermi

order Naiadales
order Neuroptera
order Nidulariales
order Notostraca
order Nudibranchia
order Octopoda
order Odonata
order Oleales
order Ophioglossales
order Opiliones
order Opuntiales
order Orchidales
order Ornithischia
order Orthoptera
order Ostariophysi
order Ostracodermi (current term)
order Palmales
order Pandanales
order Papaverales
order Parietales
order Pectinibranchia
order Pediculati
order Pedipalpi
order Pelecaniformes
order Pelycosauria
order Perciformes
order Percomorphi
order Perissodactyla
order Peronosporales

Literary usage of Order Ostracodermi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... and the sub-order Ostracodermi. See COFFER-FISH. Trunk-hose, a kind of short wide breeches gathered in above the knees, or immediately under them, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... of primitive fish-like creatures of the order Ostracodermi (qv). Worm-trails are common in the shales and sandstones of the middle and upper Devonian. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"... and Podolia, are found the earliest remains of vertebrate animals in the shape of primitive fish-like creatures of the order Ostracodermi (qv). ..."

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