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Sarcopterygii - Crossopterygii ("fleshy-finned fishes", from Greek σαρξ, sarx , flesh, and πτερυξ, pteryx , fin -- "fringe-finned fishes", from Greek κροσσός, krossos , fringe) is traditionally...
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Pages in category "Lobe-finned fish" ... The lobe-finned fishes are chordates of class Sarcopterygii. While cladistic taxonomy includes the tetrapoda (including all birds and land vertebrates) in the Sarcopterygii, this category includes only articles and subcategories concerning taxa traditionally considered fishes.
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Notes and images of lobe-finned fishes, updated from the Canadian Museum of Nature's Natural History Notebooks series. ... Eusthenopteron belongs to a group of fish called lobe-finned fishes, or sarcopterygians. They were able to move in very shallow water and perhaps onshore by using their muscular, paired fins as...
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Simple explanation of lobe finned fish in the framework of the history of the Universe ... Lobe finned fish evolved from jawless fish about 390 million years ago. They lived in fresh waters subject to seasonal droughts. Their swim bladder evolved into a sac able to breathe air, similar to the lungfish of today.
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lobe-finned fish n. A member of the subclass Crossopterygii, a group of bony fishes with paired rounded fins, suggesting limbs, that are extinct ... WordNet: lobe-finned fish...
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Definition of lobe-finned fish in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of lobe-finned fish. Pronunciation of lobe-finned fish. Translations of lobe-finned fish. lobe-finned fish synonyms, lobe-finned fish antonyms. Information about lobe-finned fish in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... lobefin; ray-finned fish;
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The earliest lobe-finned fish are found as fossils in the Lower Devonian, and by the end of this period all major lineages had appeared. These early lobe-fins were fast-swimmers with a heterocercal tail, meaning that the tail fin was asymmetrical and larger on the dorsal side.
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Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish wins the Best Book Award from The National Academies! ... In 2006, a team of scientists unveiled the discovery of Tiktaalik roseae, a fossil fish unearthed in the Canadian Arctic that changed the way we think about the orgins of life on land. This site is designed to provide information to...
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This small order contains some of the more unusual prehistoric fish known almost exclusively from the fossil record. The members of this order are known as fringe-finned or lobe-finned fish due to the unusual shape of their fins.
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Lobe finned fish themselves are not a strictly independent phylogenic assemblage. All are sarcopterygians, the subclass encompassing both Dipnoi and Crossopterygians, and examples of lobe fins are found from both of these groups.
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