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Pteraspidomorphi showed a gradual trend toward more hydrodynamically efficient head shapes during their evolution, but many potentially optimal forms were never explored. This suggests that their extinction was not caused by strict hydrodynamic constraints, and that ostracoderms disappeared before fully exploiting the range of viable body shapes available to them.
November 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM