The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China
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Lu, Jing; Zhu, Min; Long, John A; Zhao, Wenjin; Senden, Timothy; Jia, Liantao; Qiao, Tuo
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Recent discoveries of advanced fish-like stem-tetrapods (for example, Panderichthys and Tiktaalik) have greatly improved our knowledge of the fin-to-limb transition. However, a paucity of fossil data from primitive finned tetrapods prevents profound understanding of the acquisition sequence of tetrapod characters. Here we report a new stem-tetrapod (Tungsenia paradoxa gen. et sp. nov.) from the Lower Devonian (Pragian, ∼409 million years ago) of China, which extends the earliest record of...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2012 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/69314 |
Source: | Nature Communications |
DOI: | 10.1038/ncomms2170 |
Access Rights: | Open Access |
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