-
species is
about 377
million years ago (Mya), the
latest around 310 Mya.
Rhizodonts lived in
tropical rivers and
freshwater lakes and were the
dominant predators...
- synapsids, parareptiles, cotylosaurs,
protorothyridids and diapsids.
Rhizodonts remained common before they died out by the end of the period.
First sharks...
- to rivers.
Sarcopterygian fish were also prominent, and one group, the
Rhizodonts,
reached very
large size. Most
species of
Carboniferous marine fish have...
- have been
proposed as the
nearest relatives of tetrapods,
among them the
rhizodonts (notably Sauripterus), the osteolepidids, the
tristichopterids (notably...
-
containing common and
ecologically similar species of ray-finned fishes,
rhizodont lobe-finned fishes, acanthodians, sharks, and holocephalans.
Recent analysis...
- a jaw
about twice that length,
although that
specimen may
belong to a
rhizodont instead. ****uming this jaw
fragment does
pertain to Hyneria, and ****uming...
-
important structures."p. 638. Digit-like
radials are also
known in the
rhizodont fish Sauripterus,
though this is
likely a case of
convergent evolution...
-
Sauripterus ("lizard wing") is a
genus of
rhizodont lobe-finned fish that
lived during the
Devonian period (416-360.7 Ma). This
genus was
described by...
-
hears of the
Rhizodont, an
ancient freshwater predator the size of a
killer whale. To
attain a
sense of the
monstrosity of the
Rhizodont,
Jeremy visits...
- onto dry land. The
first tetrapodomorphs,
which included the
gigantic rhizodonts, had the same
general anatomy as the lungfish, who were
their closest...
