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Lungfish are
freshwater vertebrates belonging to the
class Dipnoi.
Lungfish are best
known for
retaining ancestral characteristics within the Osteichthyes...
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Tetrapoda and the lungfishes.
Rhipidistia includes Porolepiformes and
Dipnoi.
Extensive fossilization of
lungfishes has
contributed to many evolutionary...
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their classification into two clades: the
Rhipidistia (comprising the
Dipnoi, or lungfish, and the Tetrapodomorpha,
which includes the Tetrapoda) and...
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Patrick M.; Chami,
Remigius (January 2009). "A new
Cretaceous lungfish (
Dipnoi: Ceratodontidae) from the
Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania".
African Natural History...
- and bone lost
among the
chondrostean fishes.
Lungs have been
retained in
dipnoi (lungfish), and many
tetrapods (birds, mammals, reptiles, and some amphibians)...
- planet. It is one of six
extant representatives of the
ancient air-breathing
Dipnoi (lungfishes) that
flourished during the
Devonian period (about 413–365 million...
- Its tooth-bearing
premaxillary and
maxillary bones are
fused as in all
Dipnoi.
South American lungfish also
share an
autostylic jaw
suspension (where...
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Rodney (2020-05-03). "A New
Species of
Fossil Lungfish (Osteichthyes:
Dipnoi) from the
Cretaceous of Australia".
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology....
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Dipnoi (lungfish) Tetrapoda...
- an
early precursor of fish to tetrapods. Due to its
monophyletic clade,
Dipnoi, it is the
sister group to the tetrapods; this is
attributed to its distinctive...
