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Tiktaalik (/tɪkˈtɑːlɪk/;
Inuktitut ᑎᒃᑖᓕᒃ [tiktaːlik]) is a
monospecific genus of
extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late
Devonian Period...
- Shubin, to
characterize Tiktaalik as a "fishapod."
Unlike many previous, more fish-like
transitional fossils, the "fins" of
Tiktaalik have
basic wrist bones...
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exact relationship between Panderichthys,
Tiktaalik, and
tetrapods are yet to be
fully resolved.
Tiktaalik had some
features of the
forefin more similar...
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elpistostegalians (also
known as Panderichthyida)
notably the
genus Tiktaalik. A
notable feature of
Tiktaalik is the
absence of
bones covering the gills.
These bones...
- bony fish best
adapted to life in
shallow coastal/swampy
waters (such as
Tiktaalik roseae).
Thanks to
relatively strong,
muscular limbs (which were likely...
- elpistostegalians,
combining fishlike and tetrapod-like characters, such as
Tiktaalik, are
sometimes called fishapods.
Although historically Elpistostegalia...
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forms transitional between fish and the
early labyrinthodonts, such as
Tiktaalik, have been
referred to as "fishapods" by
their discoverers,
being half-fish...
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Cambrian or
Early Ordovician.
Vertebrates such as the lobe-finned fish
Tiktaalik started to move on to land in the late Devonian,
about 375
million years...
- Phylonyms,
defines the
group as
including all taxa
closer to
Eryops than to
Tiktaalik, Panderichthys, or Eusthenopteron. The
discovery of the
Zachelmie trackways...
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their strong pectoral and
pelvic fins
gradually evolved into legs (see
Tiktaalik). In the oceans,
primitive sharks became more
numerous than in the Silurian...
