A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Triassic of Anhui, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCoelacanths (e.g., Latimeria) are a curious group of sarcopterygian fishes that survive over hundreds of millions of years and are important in evolutionary biology.
Qing-Hua Dai +7 more
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Rhipidistians (Sarcopterygii) from the Hunter Siltstone (Late Famennian) near Grenfell, NSW, Australia [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2000 Rhipidistian sarcopterygian fishes (Dipnomorpha + Tetrapodomorpha) are well represented in the upper levels of the Hunter Siltstone (latest Famennian) near Grenfell. New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Z. Johanson, A. Ritchie
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PLoS ONE, 2023 We describe the largest bony fish in the Late Devonian (late Famennian) fossil assemblage from Waterloo Farm near Makhanda/Grahamstown, South Africa. It is a giant member of the extinct clade Tristichopteridae (Sarcopterygii: Tetrapodomorpha) and most ...
Robert W Gess, Per E Ahlberg
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Histology of juvenile skin of Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger, 1837 (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2019 : The skin of three juvenile Lepidosiren paradoxa specimens was examined. The epidermis was composed of a polystratified epithelium resting on a basement membrane, including mucus-secreting cells, and a cuticle of mucopolysaccharides on the surface.
LUIS ALBERTO ROMANO +3 more
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The genome sequence of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis (Boscá, 1883) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchEukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Deuterostomia; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Gnathostomata; Teleostomi; Euteleostomi; Sarcopterygii; Dipnotetrapodomorpha; Tetrapoda; Amniota; Sauropsida; Sauria; Lepidosauria; Squamata; Bifurcata;
Joana Meier +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Today, the only living genus of coelacanth, Latimeria is represented by two species along the eastern coast of Africa and in Indonesia. This sarcopterygian fish is nicknamed a "living fossil", in particular because of its slow evolution.
Lionel Cavin +5 more
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Habitat of early stegocephalians (Chordata, Vertebrata, Sarcopterygii): a little saltier than most paleontologists like? [PDF]
Fossil RecordA controversy on the degree of marine influence in the paleoenvironments represented by many Paleozoic stegocephalian-bearing fossiliferous localities has persisted for decades.
Michel Laurin
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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.
Amin El Fassi El Fehri +4 more
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Structural and functional divergence of growth hormone-releasing hormone receptors in early sarcopterygians: lungfish and Xenopus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The evolutionary trajectories of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) receptor remain enigmatic since the discovery of physiologically functional GHRH-GHRH receptor (GHRHR) in non-mammalian vertebrates in 2007.
Janice K V Tam +2 more
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The giant cretaceous Coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and its bearing on Latimerioidei interrelationships. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 We present a redescription of Megalocoelacanthus dobiei, a giant fossil coelacanth from Upper Cretaceous strata of North America. Megalocoelacanthus has been previously described on the basis of composite material that consisted of isolated elements ...
Hugo Dutel +5 more
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