An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins

John A. Long (), Gavin C. Young, Tim Holland, Tim J. Senden and Erich M. G. Fitzgerald
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John A. Long: Museum Victoria
Gavin C. Young: The Australian National University
Tim Holland: Museum Victoria
Tim J. Senden: Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University
Erich M. G. Fitzgerald: Museum Victoria

Nature, 2006, vol. 444, issue 7116, 199-202

Abstract: Tetrapods: the long march The evolutionary transition from water to land exerts a continuing fascination, heightened by recent discoveries of transitional fossils in Canada and the reinterpretation as tetrapods (or near-tetrapods) of fossils once classified as fishes. But signs of land life are detectable even further back. A spectacularly preserved 380-million-year old fossil of the fish Gogonasus from the Devonian of Australia is fish-like in many respects, yet features of its ear and limbs are unexpectedly advanced.

Date: 2006
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