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Onychodontiformes

Summary

Onychodontiformes (also known as Onychodontida and Struniiformes) is an order of prehistoric sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period. The onychodontiforms are generally regarded as early-diverging members of the coelacanth lineage.[2][1]

Onychodontiformes
Temporal range: Pragian–Famennian Possible Lochkovian record[1]
Reconstruction of Onychodus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Order: †Onychodontiformes
Andrews, 1973
Genera

Phylogeny edit

The following cladogram is adapted from Mondéjar-Fernández (2020). The study recovered Onychodontiformes as a paraphyletic group, which is shown in green:[1]

Crown-Sarcopterygii

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Mondéjar-Fernández, J. (2020). "A new onychodont (Osteichthyes; Sarcopterygii) from the Middle Devonian of Morocco and its bearing on early osteichthyan evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (7): 573–606. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1655495. S2CID 208586697.
  2. ^ Lu, J.; Zhu, M.; Ahlberg, P. E.; Qiao, T.; Zhu, Y.; Zhao, W.; Jia, L. (2016). "A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians". Science Advances. 2 (6): e1600154. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E0154L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600154. PMC 4928971. PMID 27386576.

External links edit

  • Onychodontiformes at Palaeos
  • Onychodontida phylogeny at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive