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Placoderms are an extinct class of armored fishes, the first known animals of any type to evolve true jaws. Placoderms evolved from agnathan (jawless) fishes in the Silurian period, about 425 million years ago. This is around the same time as the first terrestrial animals, such as millipedes, are known to have ventured on the land.
