📕 subnode [[@s5bug/gnathostomata]] in 📚 node [[gnathostomata]]

Gnathostomata

  • Member of the [[Vertebrata]] in the [[Chordata]]
  • Allowed animals to much more easily be predators
    • Jaws could be used to immobilize prey
    • Once you become predatory, the fitness space becomes much more steep
      • Your fitness highly depends on your sight and agility
  • First Gnathostomes appeared in the [[Silurian]]

Taxonomy

📖 stoas
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