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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, 2015 Criswell, Katharine E. (2015): The comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships of African and South American lungfishes (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174 (4): 801-858, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12255, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj ...
Criswell, Katharine E. +1 more
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Ecomorphological change in lobe-finned fishes (Sarcopterygii): disparity and rates [PDF]
, 2015 Patterns of vertebrate cranial/post-cranial trait diversification are not well-understood. Two ecological hypotheses, the ‘head-first’ model and the ‘stages’ model, predict the ordered decoupling of cranial/post-cranial ecomorphological ...
Juarez, Bryan
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Life history and ossification patterns in Miguashaia bureaui reveal the early evolution of osteogenesis in coelacanths [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 The study of development is critical for revealing the evolution of major vertebrate lineages. Coelacanths have one of the longest evolutionary histories among osteichthyans, but despite access to extant representatives, the onset of their weakly ...
Jorge Mondéjar Fernández +4 more
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A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background The megalichthyids are one of several clades of extinct tetrapodomorph fish that lived throughout the Devonian–Permian periods. They are advanced “osteolepidid-grade” fishes that lived in freshwater swamp and lake environments, with some taxa ...
Alice M. Clement +5 more
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2023 Sarcopterygian remains are relatively common in the so-called “Placoderm Sandstone” (storm-origin bone-bearing breccia) from the Emsian (Lower Devonian) of Podłazie in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland).
OLGA WILK
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Lung evolution in vertebrates and the water-to-land transition
eLife, 2022 A crucial evolutionary change in vertebrate history was the Palaeozoic (Devonian 419–359 million years ago) water-to-land transition, allowed by key morphological and physiological modifications including the acquisition of lungs. Nonetheless, the origin
Camila Cupello +12 more
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Herpetichthyes, Amphibioidei, Choanichthyes or Sarcopterygii? [PDF]
Nature, 1955 DURING recent decades, our ideas on the classification of fishes have changed greatly. In the early years of the century, it was believed that among the higher bony fishes (Osteichthyes), the ray-finned forms and crossopterygians were closely allied, and that the lungfishes were remote from the two, representing a presumably primitive if aberrant group.
ETHELWYNN TREWAVAS +3 more
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150 million years of freshwater fish biogeography: vicariance or dispersal? [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Freshwater fishes are supposedly good case studies to test palaeobiogeographical models because they are attached to land masses, at least primary freshwater fishes, which are unable to cross marine barriers.
Lionel Cavin
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Coelacanths from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and the pace of actinistian evolution [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2017 Latimeria chalumnae (Actinistia) was regarded as the ‘ancestor of the four-legged vertebrates’ and rapidly became the iconic example of a ‘living fossil’.
Christophe Ferrante +3 more
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