• Cladistic classification of Sarcopterygii is the classication of Sarcopterygii as a clade containing not only the lobe-finned fishes (coelacanths and lungfish)...
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    are most closely related to lungfishes. Cladistically, this would make the tetrapods a subgroup of Sarcopterygii and thus sarcopterygians themselves. As...
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    inclusion of the smaller sub-class Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes was regarded as paraphyletic. This has led to the current cladistic classification which splits...
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    traditional hymenopteran classification is faulty, by cladistic criteria, in the same way as pre-cladistic vertebrate classifications in which groups sharing...
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    species) Subclass Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish: 8 species) Superclass Tetrapoda (four-limbed vertebrates; 35,100+ species) (The classification below follows...
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    presents a cladistic view, i.e. that the terrestrial tetrapods evolved from lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii). Until recently, the view of most ichthyologists...
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    1962) – Classification of spine-possessing animals according to some authorities Tetrapoda are cladistically included within Sarcopterygii. Yang, Chuan;...
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    Tetrapod (section Cladistics)
    definition is often supported by an equivalent cladistic definition. Cladistics is a modern branch of taxonomy which classifies organisms through evolutionary...
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    re-defined the previously obsolete term Stegocephalia ("roof heads") as a cladistic alternative to "Labyrinthodontia" or "Tetrapoda". The labyrinthodonts...
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    Rhipidistia (category Instances of Lang-el using second unnamed parameter)
    clade of lobe-finned fishes which includes the tetrapods and lungfishes. Rhipidistia formerly referred to a subgroup of Sarcopterygii consisting of the...
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  • lobe-finned fish of the clade Sarcopterygii, appearing in coastal water in the middle Devonian, and giving rise to the first amphibians. The group of lobe-finned...
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    the vertebrates and craniates are cladistically equivalent, at least for the living representatives. The placement of the Myxini within the vertebrates...
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    group of bony fish in the Devonian. Taxonomists who subscribe to the cladistic approach include the grouping Tetrapoda within the Sarcopterygii, and the...
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    definitions of Sauropsida essentially identical to Huxley's (i.e. including the mammal-like reptiles) are also forwarded. Some later cladistic work has used...
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    (Latimeria menadoensis). They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods), which means they are more closely...
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    Vertebrate Palaeontology, which combines cladistic and linnaean rankings, Benton has given Batrachomorpha the rank of Subclass in his 2001 edition, Class in...
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    definition of Antracosauria in his Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie, 1970. With cladistics things have changed again. Gauthier, Kluge and Rowe (1988) defined Anthracosauria...
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    fishes) † Class Osteichthyes (bony fish) Subclass Actinopterygii Subclass Sarcopterygii Class Amphibia Subclass Labyrinthodontia † Subclass Lepospondyli † Subclass...
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    Hynerpeton (category Taxonbars of monotypic genera missing species)
    age of cladistics due to being an evolutionary grade leading to true tetrapods, rather than a relations-based clade. The traditional, non-cladistic definition...
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    coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Jurassic of France, and the question of the closest relative fossil to Latimeria". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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    Pederpes (category Carboniferous tetrapods of Europe)
    of uncertain relationships to other tetrapod families. While an amphibian in the broad sense, under cladistic taxonomy, Pederpes is not a member of the...
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    Carboniferous conspicuously lacking in tetrapod remains. Currently, using modern cladistic taxonomy, Whatcheeriidae is not placed in Amphibia or any other class...
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    but cladistic analyses indicate they are more advanced than Tiktaalik, though whether they actually had feet rather than fins is unknown. In order of discovery:...
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    Osteolepiformes, also known as Osteolepidida, is a group of prehistoric lobe-finned fishes which first appeared during the Devonian period. The order contains...
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    Phylogenie et classification (Odonata)". Martinia. 3 (4): 1–311. Retrieved 2 March 2022. Bechly, G. (2018). "First record and a new species of the fossil...
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    classed as H. sapiens neanderthalensis, or if H. sapiens is defined cladistically from the divergence from H. neanderthalensis, 0.3 based on the available...
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    batrachomorph-reptiliomorph divide. However, a cladistic analysis by Pardo et al. (2017) recovered Aistopoda at the base of Tetrapoda. The group was quite diverse...
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    Ciechocinek Formation in the Częstochowa-Zawiercie area reveals the remains of a wide range of prehistoric environments; the Fore-Sudetic Monocline region must have...
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    of prehistoric lobe-finned fishes, it was cladistically redefined to include tetrapods. A rise in global oxygen content allowed for the evolution of large...
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  • amniotes and those amphibians very closely related to them. In current cladistic schemes, Batrachosauria is the sister clade to the Anthracosauroidea From...
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