# Class: Acanthodii
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta >
Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata
(vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi
(teleost fish)
Originated in the Silurian and went extinct in the Permian.
Fossil remains of acanthodians (spines, scale impressions, skull remnants,
rarely articulated skeletons) have been recorded from Devonian and Carboniferous
shallow marine, estuarine and lake deposits in South Africa.
Publications
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Evans, F.J., 1999. Palaeobiology of Early Carboniferous
lacustrine biota of the Waaipoort Formation (Witteberg Group). South Africa.
Palæontol. Afr. 35, 1–6.
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Jubb, R.A., Gardiner, B.G., 1975. A preliminary catalogue of
identifiable fossil fish material from southern Africa. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 67
(11), 381–440.
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