Fossil Profile: Eopodus

Eopodus was a fully terrestrial descendant of antiarch placoderms, and the first representative of the Latapoda clade to be found, having evolved from shore-crawling Latapteron-like ancestors a few million years ago. Not unlike them, Eopodus, too, was herbivorous, and probably subsided on a diet of shrubby vascular plants almost exclusively, though they would not have shied away from the occasional small arthropod. Almost 380 million years later, latapods are evidently no longer solely herbivorous, and occupy practically every terrestrial niche in Dome 4. If anthropromorphised fossil placoderms could think, they would probably be very proud of their descendants.