How To Use crossopterygian In A Sentence
- One group of extinct crossopterygians, known as the rhipidistians, are the group thought by most to be the ones that successfully invaded land and gave rise to amphibians.
- The coelacanths were a side group of crossopterygians who evolved along separate lines from the rhipidistians in the Devonian.
- These similarities have prompted evolutionists to confidently declare that crossopterygians evolved into tetrapods.
- Latimeria is a ‘living fossil,’ a single surviving species of the old lineage of crossopterygian fishes.
- Large Bothriolepis plates were scattered around through the rocks with abundant crossopterygian bones and scales in the top units.
- ‘Amphibians’ were held to be descended from rhipidistian crossopterygians and the closest living relative of amphibians was coelacanths.
- Of particular importance is the presence of the crossopterygian group, typified by Eusthenopteron foordi and Elpistostege watsoni. Miguasha Provincial Park, Canada
- Look at the comparison of the oldest known amphibian skeleton, Ichthyostega IK-the-o-STAY-ga, with a crossopterygian fish shown in Figure 4-8. Transitions on the DI blog - The Panda's Thumb
- Fish included many elasmobranchs as well as osteichthyes such as palaeoniscoids, dipnoi, selachians, and crossopterygians, together with the ancient acanthodians.
- The sarcopterygians include the lungfish, together with the crossopterygians, which are composed of coelacanths and the extinct rhipidistians.
