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A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny

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  • Min Zhu

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Xiaobo Yu

    (Kean University)

  • Wei Wang

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Wenjin Zhao

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Liantao Jia

    (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

Piscine relations Ray-finned bony fish (ranging from cod to guppies) and lobe-finned bony fish (lungfish, coelacanths and the ancestors of the land vertebrates) were clearly once close relatives, but a large morphological gulf still separates fossils of both groups dating from times when they looked much more similar than they do now. A fossil of a primitive lobe-finned fish that combines many features found in both groups has now been discovered in the Yumman fossil beds in China, and this new species offers a bridgehead between the two distinct lines of fishy descent.

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  • Min Zhu & Xiaobo Yu & Wei Wang & Wenjin Zhao & Liantao Jia, 2006. "A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny," Nature, Nature, vol. 441(7089), pages 77-80, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:441:y:2006:i:7089:d:10.1038_nature04563
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04563
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    1. Xindong Cui & Matt Friedman & Yilun Yu & You-an Zhu & Min Zhu, 2023. "Bony-fish-like scales in a Silurian maxillate placoderm," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-11, December.

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