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Definition of Ostracoderm
1. Noun. Extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic.
Group relationships: Order Ostracodermi, Ostracodermi
Definition of Ostracoderm
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostracoderm
Literary usage of Ostracoderm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1900)
"It is the latest survivor known of the earliest type of ostracoderm armour.
It is the " first example of an ostracoderm in which traces of the axial ..."
2. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1917)
"... to the bottom- or ground- living, slow, armored types, there is usually an
increase of bodily size, also an increase of Fie. 46. THE ostracoderm ..."
3. Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles by Frédéric Cuvier (1818)
"C'est le nom sous lequel Klein, ostracoderm., pag. i34, désigne le genre de coquilles
... ostracoderm ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"In fact, we are inclined to suspect that it may have been of ostracoderm rather
than of Elasmobranch nature. But without entering into the question of its ..."
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