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When did the earliest palaeonisciform fishes appear in the fossil record?
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Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) swimming along the seafloor of the Black Sea.
The earliest palaeonisciform fishes first appear in the fossil record at the end of the Silurian Period, which occurred approximately 419 million years ago.1