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Fish first evolved from work-like chordates around 500 million years ago. The first fish were small and jaw-less. They filtered food through holes where the mouth would be. Eventually these fish developed jaws and many of them started hunting other fish and animals. That is how modern fish diversified.

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The first fish and vertebrates were the Ostracoderms,

which appeared in the Cambrian

Period, about 510 million years ago, and became extinct

near the end of the Devonian

, about 377 million years ago.

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Fish do not represent a single monophyletic group. Therefor, the evolution of the fish is not studied as a single event. But, the first fish were jawless fish.

Placoderms were among the first jawed fish.

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are you thinking of a coelecanth?

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