Who Survived The Devonian Extinction?

Who Survived The Devonian Extinction? Placoderms, for example, did not survive, acanthodians were decimated, and almost all agnathans vanished. Numerous brachiopods became extinct, conodonts all but disappeared, and only one family of trilobites survived. In total, over 70% of species living in the Devonian no longer existed in the Carboniferous Period. What went extinct in