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sarcopterygians

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  • noun Plural form of sarcopterygian.

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Examples

  • All the bones were disarticulated, but looked as though they'd come from Martian analogs of Late Paleozoic sarcopterygians and temnospondyls.

    One of those WoW things. sovay 2009

  • I thought the ancestors of what we humans recognize as “bony fish” today diverged from the sarcopterygians during the early Silurian. harold

    Tetrapods are older than we thought! - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • This prompts me to ask, what about the other sarcopterygians, namely coelacanths and dipnoid lungfish?

    3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Major elements of the tetrapod body plan originated as a succession of intermediate morphologies that evolved mosaically and in parallel among sarcopterygians closely related to tetrapods, allowing them to exploit diverse habitats in the Devonian.

    Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Our inability to examine the neural characters of a relevant outgroup rhipidistians may result in many sarcopterygian plesiomorphic characters being interpreted as apomorphic characters, due to the wide distribution of paedomorphic characters among living sarcopterygians and their possible resemblance to plesiomorphic characters present in living outgroups that can be examined.

    Panderichthys rhombolepis - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • The other lineage led to lobe-finned fishes, or sarcopterygians, which in turn gave rise to land vertebrates.

    Wired Top Stories Wired UK 2011

  • Those examples are more like actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes) vs. sarcopterygians

    Planet Atheism 2009

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