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Sarcopterygii (/ˌsɑːrkɒptəˈrɪdʒi.aɪ/; from
Ancient Gr**** σάρξ (sárx) 'flesh' and πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fin') —
sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii...
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known as gombessa,
African coelacanth, or
simply coelacanth) is a
crossopterygian, one of two
extant species of coelacanth, a rare
order of vertebrates...
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Polypterus ... is not a
crossopterygian, but an actinopterygian, and
hence can tell us
nothing about crossopterygian anatomy and embryology." Hall...
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oldest fossil vertebrates,
including ostracoderms, placoderms,
crossopterygians, and
early tetrapods, have in
their skulls sockets that
appear to have...
- from the skull,
resulting in
improved terrestrial locomotion. The
crossopterygian cleithrum was
retained as the clavicle, and the
interclavicle was well-developed...
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geological period from the
pectoral fins and
pelvic fins of
their crossopterygian fish ancestors. Fish fins
develop along a "fin line",
which runs from...
- stegocephalians : with
descriptions of a new
stegocephalian and new
crossopterygian from the
Upper Devonian of East Greenland. Vol. 114. C. A. Reitzel...
- PhD
thesis entitled 'The
braincase of Youngolepis, a
Lower Devonian crossopterygian from Yunnan, south-western China' at
Stockholm University. She was...
- substrates. Many
crossopterygian fishes had
kinesis also.
Early tetrapods inherited much of
their suction feeding ability from
their crossopterygian ancestors...
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completed his PhD with the
dissertation On the
structure of the
snout of
Crossopterygians and
lower Gnathostomes in general. He parti****ted in the Greenland...
