Did jawed vertebrates outcompete the jawless ones? Does the fossil record provide any evidence?

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Jawed and jawless vertebrates lived together for tens of millions of years, so competition is an unlikely explanation for the disappearance of most jawless vertebrates. The late Devonian extinctions wiped out the ostracoderms along with many invertebrates and several types of jawed fishes (including placoderms).

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