Osteolepididae
Temporal range: Devonian
Life restoration of Osteolepis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: †Osteolepiformes
Family: †Osteolepididae
Cope, 1889
Genera

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Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans.[1] Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.[2]

Genera

Below is a list of genera regarded as osteolepidids at some point:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Long, J. A. (1985). "A New Osteolepidid Fish from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 12 (3): 361–377.
  2. ^ a b c d e Clement, A. M.; Cloutier, R.; Lu, J.; Perilli, E.; Maksimenko, A.; Long, J. (2021). "A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography". PeerJ. 9: e12597. doi:10.7717/peerj.12597. PMC 8667741. PMID 34966593.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Borgen, U. J.; Nakrem, H. A. (2016). Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of osteolepiform fish. [Chichester, West Sussex, UK]: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1119286431.
  4. ^ Snitting, D. (2009). "Heddleichthys - a new tristichopterid genus from the Dura Den Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland (Famennian, Late Devonian)". Acta Zoologica. 90: 273–284. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00376.x.
  5. ^ a b Young, G. C.; Schultze, H.-P. (2005). "New osteichthyans (bony fishes) from the Devonian of Central Australia". Fossil Record. 8 (1): 13–35. Bibcode:2005FossR...8...13Y. doi:10.1002/mmng.200410002.


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