Morphometric analysis of lungfish endocasts elucidates early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution [PDF]
eLife, 2022 The lobe-finned fish, lungfish (Dipnoi, Sarcoptergii), have persisted for ~400 million years from the Devonian Period to present day. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is relatively well understood, but this is not the case for the ...
Alice M Clement +6 more
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Morphology and histology of the olfactory organ of two African lungfishes, Protopterus amphibius and P. dolloi (Lepidosirenidae, Dipnoi) [PDF]
Applied Microscopy, 2021 The olfactory organs of two African lungfishes, Protopterus amphibius and P. dolloi, were investigated using a stereo microscope and a compound light microscope and were described anatomically, histologically, and histochemically.
Hyun Tae Kim, Jong Young Park
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A new lungfish (Ceratodontoidei, Dipnoi) from the Early Jurassic of Chongqing, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDipnoi (lungfishes) are a group of air-breathing sarcopterygian fishes that survived over hundreds of millions of years and their crown members (Neoceratodus, Lepidosiren and Protopterus) are among the closest living relatives of the tetrapods. After the
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A new origin of the ‘modern’ lungfish dentition revealed by taxonomic overlap between Devonian and Carboniferous dipnoans [PDF]
PeerJLungfishes (Dipnoi, Sarcopterygii) initially radiated in the Early Devonian, and reached the apogee of their diversity during this period, especially with regard to their dentitions.
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The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan ‘Chirodipterus’ australis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 One of the first endocasts of a dipnoan (lungfish) to be realised was that of the Upper Devonian taxon Chirodipterus australis. This early interpretation was based on observations of the shape of the cranial cavity alone and was not based on a natural ...
Struan A.C. Henderson, Tom J. Challands
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Investigating a Devonian vertebrate assemblage with synchrotron microtomography of coprolites [PDF]
Scientific ReportsFossilised faeces (coprolites) are a unique source of information as they record palaeontological evidence of animal behaviour (autecology) as well as interactions between extinct organisms and their environment (synecology).
Arnaud Rebillard +3 more
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The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The first virtual cranial endocast of a lungfish from the Early Devonian, Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi, is described. Dipnorhynchus, only the fourth Devonian lungfish for which a near complete cranial endocast is known, is a key taxon for clarifying ...
Alice M. Clement +3 more
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ErythroCite: a database on red blood cell size of fishes [PDF]
Scientific DataSize is a fundamental trait in biology, and cell size plays a key role in cellular functions, influencing physiological adaptations and evolutionary processes in living organisms. For decades, scientists have been fascinated by the considerable variation
Félix P. Leiva +9 more
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A high latitude Devonian lungfish, from the Famennian of South Africa [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 New fossil lungfish remains comprising two parasphenoids, tooth plates and scales from the Famennian Witpoort Formation of South Africa are described. From the parasphenoid material, which bears similarity to Oervigia and Sagenodus but is nevertheless ...
Robert W. Gess, Alice M. Clement
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New Cretaceous lungish material from southern South America, Argentina [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Dipnoi is a large group of sarcopterygians which ranges from the Early Devonian to the present. Traditionally, it was considered that their taxonomic diversity decreased at the end of Paleozoic.
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