Forerunners of four legs

Philippe Janvier ()
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Philippe Janvier: the Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, URA 12 CNRS

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6704, 748-749

Abstract: Since the 1930s, palaeontologists have thought that four-legged land vertebrates (or tetrapods) evolved from a group of lobe-finned fishes called osteolepiforms. This is now confirmed by an analysis of the osteolepiforms, which concludes that they are actually an ensemble of primitive tetrapodomorphs. This is a large group that, as expected, also includes the tetrapods.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27332

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