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- is used. The derived adjectives end with "-dactyl" or "-dactylous." Pentadactyly (from Gr**** πέντε pénte "five") is the condition of having five digits...
- Other unusual qualities include black skin and bones, blue earlobes, and pentadactyly (five toes on each foot) – most chickens have only four. The birds are...
- such as humans and other primates. Most tetrapods have five digits (pentadactyly), and short digits (i.e. significantly shorter than the metacarpal/metatarsals)...
- lower front teeth. Primates generally have five digits on each limb (pentadactyly), with a characteristic type of keratin fingernail on the end of each...
- first vertebrate with four limbs each with digits in the extremity (pentadactyly), rather than fins of their sarcopterygian relatives. Stegocephalians...
- extinction. The body plan of tetrapod limbs are so similar (especially the pentadactyly) that they are given shared terminologies for each component of the appendicular...
- labyrinthodonts from Romer's gap has led to the challenging of the hypothesis that pentadactyly, as displa**** by most modern tetrapods, is plesiomorphic. The number...
- nevertheless several primitive features left in the human hand, including pentadactyly (having five fingers), the hairless skin of the palm and fingers, and...
- monodactyly, oligodactyly, pamprodactyly, pentadactyl, pentadactylous, pentadactyly, perissodactyl, polydactyly, pterodactyl, schizodactyly, syndactylous...
- krasiejowensis from the Late Tri****ic of Poland, the first record of pentadactyly among Temnospondyli". Journal of Anatomy. 237 (6): 1151–1161. doi:10...