Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as Crossopterygia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See brachioganoidei.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians
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chained_bear "Lobe-finned fish appeared during the Silurian period (roughly 420 million years ago). The Coelacanth and the extinct Rhipidistians are examples of lobe-finned fish." (enchantedlearning.com)
Edit: now called Sarcopterygii. (?) Aug 29, 2008