Sarcopterygii (/ˌsɑːrkɒptəˈrɪdʒi.aɪ/; from Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx) 'flesh' and πτέρυξ (ptérux) 'wing, fin') — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii...
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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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the rest are tetrapods, a terrestrial clade of lobe-finned fishes (Sarcopterygii) who evolved air-breathing using lungs. The name "chordate" comes from...
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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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successful today: Actinopterygii includes most extant bony fish species, and Sarcopterygii includes the tetrapods. Euteleostomes originally all had an endochondral...
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Middle Devonian period. After Benton, 2004; and Swartz, 2012. Subclass Sarcopterygii Infraclass Tetrapodomorpha Order †Rhizodontida Family †Sauripteridae...
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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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tetrapods and lungfishes. Rhipidistia formerly referred to a subgroup of Sarcopterygii consisting of the Porolepiformes and Osteolepiformes, a definition that...
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Albinism (section In Sarcopterygii)
Examples of albino laboratory mammals Albinism is the congenital absence of melanin in an animal or plant resulting in white hair, feathers, scales and...
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including the ability to breathe air, and ancestral structures within Sarcopterygii, including the presence of lobed fins with a well-developed internal...
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lepidotrichia, as opposed to the bulkier, fleshy lobed fins of the sister class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish). Resembling folding fans, the actinopterygian fins...
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Fish vary greatly in size. The whale shark and basking shark exceed all other fish by a considerable margin in weight and length. Fish are a paraphyletic...
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Jurassic (section Sarcopterygii)
17: 3–13. Clement, Gaël (2005-09-30). "A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Jurassic of France, and the question of the closest relative...
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Marise S. S.; Maisey, John G. (2008). "New occurrence of Mawsonia (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana Basin,...
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(order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. As sarcopterygians, they are more closely...
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This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata. Order Amphioxiformes Every animal in this list is...
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A. Y. (2022). "A new species of rhizodontiform sarcopterygian fish (Sarcopterygii: Rhizodontiformes) from the Lower Carboniferous of the Moscow Region"...
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(Latimeria menadoensis). They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods), which means they are more closely...
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Kayenta Formation (section Sarcopterygii)
The Kayenta Formation is a geological formation in the Glen Canyon Group that is spread across the Colorado Plateau province of the United States, including...
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Soares, Daphne (ed.). "The Giant Cretaceous Coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and...
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into two separate groups: the Actinopterygii (or ray-finned fish) and Sarcopterygii (which includes the lobe-finned fish). During the Devonian period a...
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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish, which includes most familiar bony fish) Sarcopterygii Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) Tetrapoda Amphibia (amphibians)...
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Amphibia and Amniota within the clade of vertebrates with fleshy limbs (Sarcopterygii). McNeill, J.; et al., eds. (2012). International Code of Nomenclature...
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the Neoceratodontidae are an ancient family belonging to the class Sarcopterygii, or lobe-finned fishes. Fossil records of this group date back 380 million...
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Teleostomi C. L. Bonaparte, 1836 Subgroups †Acanthodii Euteleostomi ("Osteichthyes") Actinopterygii (majority of all fish) Sarcopterygii (includes tetrapods)...
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Clade: Osteichthyes Clade: Sarcopterygii Clade: Tetrapoda...
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specifically from the tetrapodomorph branch of lobe-finned fishes (Sarcopterygii), living in the early to middle Devonian period. The first tetrapods...
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rays covered by a thin stretch of scaleless skin; in lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) such as coelacanths and lungfish, fins are short rays based around...
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