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Panderichthys and all more
derived tetrapodomorph taxa. The
earliest elpistostegalians,
combining fishlike and tetrapod-like characters, such as Tiktaalik...
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homologous to fingers. Finger-like
distal radials are also
known in
other elpistostegalians:
Panderichthys (which has at
least four) and
Elpistostege (which has...
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which help to
alter the body's
specific density and buoyancy. In
elpistostegalians, a
crown group of lobe-finned fish that gave rise to the land-dwelling...
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around 75 cm (30 in),
which is
smaller than most
elpistostegalians.
Qikiqtania represents an
elpistostegalian closely related to
limbed tetrapods. In all phylogenetic...
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tristichopterids (notably Eusthenopteron), and more
recently the
elpistostegalians (also
known as Panderichthyida)
notably the
genus Tiktaalik. A notable...
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freshwater and
shallow marine tetrapodomorph fish, the tetrapod-like
elpistostegalians (such as Tiktaalik)
disappeared at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary...
- ****umption that
tetrapods originated in the Late Devonian,
after elpistostegalians appear in the
fossil record near the
start of the Frasnian. The Zachelmie...
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conventionally ****ociated with
terrestrially first appeared in
aquatic elpistostegalians such as
Panderichthys rhombolepis,
Elpistostege watsoni, and Tiktaalik...
- Eusthenodon). Some
tristichopterids share some of the
features of the
elpistostegalians, a
diverse clade of
tetrapodomorphs close to the
origin of (and including)...
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indicative of a
locomotor capacity intermediate between those of
other elpistostegalians and
those of
limbed vertebrates. A
diverse ****emblage of fish remains...
