Definition of Tetrapods. Meaning of Tetrapods. Synonyms of Tetrapods

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Definition of Tetrapods

Tetrapod
Tetrapod Tet"ra*pod, n. [Gr. ? fourfooted; te`tra- (see Tetra-) + ?, ?, foot.] (Zo["o]l.) An insect characterized by having but four perfect legs, as certain of the butterflies.

Meaning of Tetrapods from wikipedia

- still qualify as tetrapods through their ancestry, and some retain a pair of vestigial spurs that are remnants of the hindlimbs. Tetrapods evolved from a...
- shape. Tetrapods were first used at the thermal power station in Roches Noires in Casablanca, Morocco, to protect the sea water intake. Tetrapods have become...
- consisting of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their closest sarcopterygian relatives that are more closely related to living tetrapods than to living...
- entire clade but only aquatic members that are not tetrapods, i.e. a paraphyletic group. Non-tetrapod sarcopterygians were once the dominant predators of...
- clade of vertebrates consisting of tetrapods and their closest relatives All pages with titles containing tetrapod Tripod (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
- Carboniferous tetrapods include amphibians and reptiles that lived during the Carboniferous Period. Though stem-tetrapods originated in the preceding...
- Procynosuchidae Family Galesauridae List of Carboniferous tetrapods List of Devonian tetrapods Benton, M. J. (2004), Vertebrate Paleontology, 3rd ed. Blackwell...
- lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii, which gave rise to all land vertebrates, i.e. tetrapods). The oldest known fossils of bony fish are about 425 million years old...
- Devonian tetrapods include fishapods and amphibians that lived during the Devonian Period. Carboniferous tetrapods Permian tetrapods "Tetrapodomorpha"...
- evolution of tetrapods began about 400 million years ago in the Devonian Period with the earliest tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fishes. Tetrapods (under...