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What is the evolutionary relationship between sharks and fish?
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Bony fish and sharks were, until very recently, thought to have evolved during the Silurian period, after the extremely severe Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction.
But we now have jawless fish fossils (ostracoderms) from the Early Cambrian!
Paleontology science believe bony fish (the very first gnathostome infraphylum) was the first to evolve. But we may be wrong.
Fossil register of life in Earth is VERY, VERY scarce. And even more when we talk about life forms more than 400,000,000 years old...
There are very consistent paleontologic theories to point a common ancestor of bony fish and sharks from the Late Ordovician, and they point to sharks evolving first because of the evolutionary emergence of cartilaginous skeletons, which would be a developement - and a design improvement - of the jawless fish primitive notochord.
But we have not yet found any fossil register of this vertebrate common ancestor.
In the meantime, we still have lampreys from the Early Cambrian with rice and sauce, or «À Bordalesa» (an unique Portuguese delicacy!)...
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