Sarcopterygii (/ˌsɑːrkɒptəˈrɪdʒi.aɪ/; from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx) 'flesh', and πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fin') — sometimes considered synonymous with...
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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...
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successful today: Actinopterygii includes most extant bony fish species, and Sarcopterygii includes the tetrapods. Euteleostomes originally all had an endochondral...
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Holostei (bowfins and gars) Teleostei (96% of living fish species) Sarcopterygii or lobe-finned fish, which include: Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnomorpha...
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Kenichthys and Tungsenia. After Benton, 2004; and Swartz, 2012. Subclass Sarcopterygii Infraclass Tetrapodomorpha Order †Rhizodontida Family †Sauripteridae...
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tetrapods and lungfishes. Rhipidistia formerly referred to a subgroup of Sarcopterygii consisting of the Porolepiformes and Osteolepiformes, a definition that...
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Subclass Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish; about 30,000 species) Subclass Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish: 8 species) Superclass Tetrapoda (four-limbed vertebrates;...
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List of sarcopterygian genera (redirect from List of Sarcopterygii)
comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the class Sarcopterygii, excluding purely vernacular terms and Tetrapods. The list includes...
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Osteichthyes (bony fish) Class Actinopterygii (ray finned fishes) Clade Sarcopterygii (lobe finned fishes, ancestors of tetrapods) The above scheme is the...
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