An antiarch placoderm shows that pelvic girdles arose at the root of jawed vertebrates [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2012 Almost all gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans, chondrichthyans, ‘acanthodians’ and most placoderms) possess paired pectoral and pelvic fins. To date, it has generally been believed that antiarch placoderms (extinct armoured jawed fishes from the Silurian–Devonian periods) lacked pelvic fins.
Xiaobo Yu, Min Zhu, Liantao Jia
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SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF ANTIARCHS (VERTEBRATA, PLACODERMI) FROM THE FAMENNIAN OF TVER REGION, RUSSIA
Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Geologiya I Razvedka, 2017 New materials of the placoderm fish Bothriolepis heckeri Luksеvics from the Famennian of the Bilovo locality (Tver Region) are studied. This species is very similar to Livnolepis zadonica (H.Obrucheva) in the structure of cranial and postcranial armours ...
S V Moloshnikov
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Squamation and scale morphology at the root of jawed vertebrates [PDF]
eLife, 2022 Placoderms, as the earliest branching jawed vertebrates, are crucial to understanding how the characters of crown gnathostomes comprising Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes evolved from their stem relatives.
Yajing Wang, Min Zhu
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How big can a walking fish be? A theoretical inference based on observations on four land-dwelling fish genera of South Vietnam. [PDF]
Integr Zool, 2022 Modern amphibiotic fishes use various walking techniques but are smaller in length than half a meter, whereas extinct tetrapodomorph fishes of Devonian ranged from 0.5 to 2.5 m. Could they walk out of water, and how did they walk if they could? This study argues that, in recent ichthyofauna, snakehead is most appropriate for modeling walking technique ...
Kuznetsov AN.
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A new Early Devonian antiarch placoderm from Belarus, and the phylogeny of Asterolepidoidei [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 A new asterolepidoid antiarch, Sherbonaspis talimaae sp. nov., is described based on the disarticulated skeletal elements from several boreholes in Belarus, from the Lepel Beds of the Vitebsk Formation, which has been assigned to an Early Devonian, late ...
Dmitry P. Plax, Ervins Lukševičs
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Redescription of Phymolepis cuifengshanensis (Antiarcha: Yunnanolepididae) using high-resolution computed tomography and new insights into anatomical details of the endocranium in antiarchs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Yunnanolepidoids constitute either the most basal consecutive segments or the most primitive clade of antiarchs, a highly diversified jawed vertebrate group from the Silurian and Early Devonian periods.
Yajing Wang, Min Zhu
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Reappraisal of the Silurian placoderm Silurolepis and insights into the dermal neck joint evolution [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Silurolepis platydorsalis, a Silurian jawed vertebrate originally identified as an antiarch, is here redescribed as a maxillate placoderm close to Qilinyu and is anteroposteriorly reversed as opposed to the original description.
You-an Zhu, Jing Lu, Min Zhu
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Early Gnathostome Phylogeny Revisited: Multiple Method Consensus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 A series of recent studies recovered consistent phylogenetic scenarios of jawed vertebrates, such as the paraphyly of placoderms with respect to crown gnathostomes, and antiarchs as the sister group of all other jawed vertebrates.
Tuo Qiao +4 more
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Revision of asterolepidoid antiarch remains from the Ogre Formation (Upper Devonian) of Latvia [PDF]
Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2020 The Frasnian (Upper Devonian) antiarch Walterilepis speciosa was first described in 1933 (as Taeniolepis) on the basis of a single specimen. The newly collected material has allowed the head to be described in a more detail, especially the nuchal and ...
Ervīns Lukševičs
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Известия высших учебных заведений: Геология и разведка, 2015 The stratigraphic distribution of antiarch remains in the Middle-Upper Devonian of central, southern and east-south regions of East European Platform (EEP), western slope of South Urals and Siberia are analyzed.
S. V. Moloshnikov
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