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Sarcopterygii (/ˌsɑːrkɒptəˈrɪdʒi.aɪ/; from
Ancient Gr**** σάρξ (sárx) 'flesh' and πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fin') —
sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii...
- the rest are tetrapods, a
terrestrial clade of lobe-finned
fishes (
Sarcopterygii) who
evolved air-breathing
using lungs. The name "chordate"
comes from...
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Cladistic classification of
Sarcopterygii is the
classication of
Sarcopterygii as a
clade containing not only the lobe-finned
fishes (coelacanths and lungfish)...
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makes up the vast
majority of
extant fish) and the lobe-finned fish (
Sarcopterygii,
which gave rise to all land vertebrates, i.e. tetrapods). The oldest...
- fishes,
Actinopterygii and
Sarcopterygii,
evolved and
became common. By the
middle of the Devonian, a
lineage of
sarcopterygii with both
gills and air-breathing...
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including the
ability to
breathe air, and
ancestral structures within Sarcopterygii,
including the
presence of
lobed fins with a well-developed internal...
- Fish vary
greatly in size. The
extant whale shark and
basking shark exceed all
other fish by a
considerable margin in
weight and length. With the extinct...
- lepidotrichia, as
opposed to the bulkier,
fleshy lobed fins of the
sister class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish).
Resembling folding fans, the
actinopterygian fins...
- (order Coelacanthiformes) are an
ancient group of lobe-finned fish (
Sarcopterygii) in the
class Actinistia. As sarcopterygians, they are more closely...
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tetrapods and lungfishes.
Rhipidistia formerly referred to a
subgroup of
Sarcopterygii consisting of the
Porolepiformes and Osteolepiformes, a
definition that...
