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- noun Plural form of
osteichthyan .
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Statistical comparisons were made among osteichthyans using ganoid scales, caudates using vertebrae, ornithischians using teeth, and testudinates using shell fragments.
CONGRATS LAURA!!! ReBecca Foster 2008
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Statistical comparisons were made among osteichthyans using ganoid scales, caudates using vertebrae, ornithischians using teeth, and testudinates using shell fragments.
Archive 2008-04-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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Indeed, ancestral reconstruction and geometric morphometric analyses revealed that the patterns of morphological evolution in Polypteridae are similar to those seen in other osteichthyans, thus implying the underlying genetic and developmental mechanisms responsible for those patterns were established early in the evolutionary history of Osteichthyes.
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As a group, osteichthyans (bony fish) were around for at least a hundred million years before some of them became tetrapods.
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