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Evidence of cryptic speciation in South American lungfish.
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A redescription of the Middle Devonian dipnoan Pentlandia macroptera Traquair, 1889, and an assessment of the Phaneropleuridae.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, , . Challands, T., Smithson, T. R., Clack, J. A., Bennett, C. E., Marshall, J. E. A., Wallace-Johnson, S. M. and Hill, H., in press. A lungfish survivor of the end-Devonian extinction and an Early Carboniferous dipnoan radiation. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, , . Cloutier, R., Clement, A. M., Lee, M. S. Y., Noel, R., Bechard, I., Roy, V. and Long, J. A., in press.
Elpistostege and the origin of the vertebrate hand.
Nature, , . Gardner, J. D., Surya, K. and Organ, C. L., in press. Early tetrapodomorph biogeography: Controlling for fossil record bias in macroevolutionary analyses. Comptes Rendus Palevol, , . Klembara, J., Hain, M., Ruta, M., Berman, D. S., Pierce, S. E. and Henrici, A. C., in press.
Inner ear morphology of diadectomorphs and seymouriamorphs (Tetrapoda) uncovered by high-resolution x-ray microcomputed tomography, and the origin of the amniote crown group.
Palaeontology, , . Mondejar-Fernandez, J., in press.
A new onychodont (Osteichthyes; Sarcopterygii) from the Middle Devonian of Morocco and its bearing on early osteichthyan evolution.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, , . Torino, P., Soto, M. and Perea, D., in press.
A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints.
Historical Biology, , . 2023Brownstein, C. D., 2023. A large coelacanth, †Whiteia giganteus sp. nov., from the Triassic of Texas, USA, establishes a Pangean radiation of early Mesozoic actinistians. Palaeontologia Electronica, 26, a9. Brownstein, C. D., Harrington, R. C. and Near, T. J., 2023. The biogeography of extant lungfishes traces the breakup of Gondwana. Journal of Biogeography, 50, 1191-1198. Ferrante, C. and Cavin, L., 2023. Early Mesozoic burst of morphological disparity in the slow-evolving coelacanth fish lineage. Scientific Reports, 13, 11356. 2022Brownstein, C. D. and Bissell, I. C., 2022. Species delimitation and coexistence in an ancient, depauperate vertebrate clade. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22, 90. Stewart, T. A., Lemberg, J. B., Daly, A., Daeschler, E. B. and Shubin, N. H., 2022. A new elpistostegalian from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic. Nature, 608, 563-568. 2020Ahlberg, P. E. and Clack, J. A., 2020.
The smallest known Devonian tetrapod shows unexpectedly derived features.
Royal Society Open Science, 7, 192117. Chen, J.-Y. and Liu, J., 2020.
The youngest occurrence of embolomeres (Tetrapoda: Anthracosauria) from the Sunjiagou Formation (Lopingian, Permian) of North China.
Fossil Record, 23, 205-213. Ford, D. F. and Benson, R. B. J., 2020.
The phylogeny of early amniotes and the affinities of Parareptilia and Varanopidae.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 57-65. Kadarusman, A., Sugeha, H. Y., Pouyaud, L., Hocde, R., Hismayasari, I. B., Gunaisah, E., Widiarto, S. B., Arafat, G., Widyasari, F., Mouillot, D. and Paradis, E., 2020. A thirteen-million-year divergence between two lineages of Indonesian coelacanths. Scientific Reports, 10, 192. Young, G. C. and Lu, J., 2020.
Asia-Gondwana connections indicated by Devonian fishes from Australia: palaeogeographic considerations.
Journal of Palaeogeography, 9, 8. 2019Arbez, T., Sidor, C. A. and Steyer, J.-S., 2019.
Laosuchus naga gen. et sp. nov., a new chroniosuchian from South-East Asia (Laos) with internal structures revealed by micro-CT scan and discussion of its palaeobiology.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17, 945-962. Beznosov, P. A., Clack, J. A., Luksevics, E., Ruta, M. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2019.
Morphology of the earliest reconstructable tetrapod Parmastega aelidae.
Nature, 574, 527-531. Clack, J. A., Challands, T. J., Smithson, T. R. and Smithson, K. Z., 2019.
Newly recognized Famennian lungfishes from East Greenland reveal tooth plate diversity and blur the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary.
Papers in Palaeontology, 5, 261-279. Clack, J. A., Ruta, M., Milner, A. R., Marshall, J. E. A., Smithson, T. R. and Smithson, K. Z., 2019.
Acherontiscus caledoniae: the earliest heterodont and durophagous tetrapod.
Royal Society Open Science, 6, 182087. Long, J. A., Clement, A. M. and Choo, B., 2019.
New insights into the origins and radiation of the mid-Palaeozoic Gondwanan stem tetrapods.
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 109, 139-155. Marjanovic, D. and Laurin, M., 2019.
Phylogeny of Paleozoic limbed vertebrates reassessed through revision and expansion of the largest published relevant data matrix.
PeerJ, 6, e5565. 2018Chen, D.-L., Alavi, Y., Brazeau, M. D., Blom, H., Millward, D. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2018.
A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from "Romer's Gap".
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 108, 55-65. Henderson, S. A. C. and Challands, T. J., 2018.
The cranial endocast of the Upper Devonian dipnoan 'Chirodipterus' australis.
PeerJ, 6, e5148. Renesto, S. and Stockar, R., 2018.
First record of a coelacanth fish from the Middle Triassic Meride Limestone of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Swotzerland).
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 124, 639-653. Witzmann, F. and Schoch, R. R., 2018.
Skull and postcranium of the bystrowianid Bystrowiella schumanni from the Middle Triassic of Germany, and the position of chroniosuchians within Tetrapoda.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16, 711-739. 2017Cau, A., 2017.
Specimen-level phylogenetics in paleontology using the Fossilized Birth-Death model with sampled ancestors.
PeerJ, 5, e3055. Cavin, L., Mennecart, B., Obrist, C., Costeur, L. and Furrer, H., 2017.
Heterochronic evolution explains novel body shape in a Triassic coelacanth from Switzerland.
Scientific Reports, 7, 13695. Kemp, A., Cavin, L. and Huinot, G., 2017.
Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 471, 209-219. Laurin, M. and Pineiro, G. H., 2017.
A reassessment of the taxonomic position of mesosaurs, and a surprising phylogeny of early amniotes.
Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, 88. Lu, J., Giles, S., Friedman, M. and Zhu, M., 2017.
A new stem sarcopterygian illuminates patterns of character evolution in early bony fishes.
Nature Communications, 8, 1932. Mann, A., Rudkin, D., Evans, D. C. and Laflamme, M., 2017.
A large onychodontiform (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii) apex predator from the Eifelian-aged Dundee Formation of Ontario, Canada.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54, 233-241. Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P. E., Zhao, W.-J. and Jia, L.-T., 2017.
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish reveals substantial parallelism in stem tetrapod evolution.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1470-1476. 2016Clack, J. A., Bennett, C. E., Carpenter, D. K., Davies, S. J., Fraser, N. C., Kearsey, T. I., Marshall, J. E. A., Millward, D., Otoo, B. K. A., Reeves, E. J., Ross, A. J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K. Z., Smithson, T. R. and Walsh, S. A., 2016.
Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna.
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 0002. Clement, A. M., Challands, T. J., Long, J. A. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2016. The cranial endocast of Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) and the interrelationships of stem-group lungfishes. PeerJ, 4, e2539. Fanti, F., Conte, G. L., Angelicola, L. and Cau, A., 2016.
Why so many dipnoans? A multidisciplinary approach on the Lower Cretaceous lungfish record from Tunisia.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449, 255-265. Lu, J., Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P. E., Qiao, T., Zhu, Y., Zhao, W.-J. and Jia, L.-T., 2016. A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians. Science Advances, 2, e1600154. 2015Arratia, G. and Schultze, H.-P., 2015.
A new fossil actinistian from the Early Jurassic of Chile and its bearing on the phylogeny of Actinistia.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35, e983524. Criswell, K. E., 2015.
The comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships of African and South American lungfishes (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi).
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 174, 801-858. Dutel, H., Herbin, M. and Clement, G., 2015.
First occurrence of a mawsoniid coelacanth in the Early Jurassic of Europe.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35, e929581. Gess, R. W. and Coates, M. I., 2015.
Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175, 360-383. Glienke, S., 2015.
Two new species of the genus Batropetes (Tetrapoda, Lepospondyli) from the Central European Rotliegend (basal Permian) in Germany.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35, e918041. Liu, J. and Bever, G. S., 2015.
The last diadectomorph sheds light on Late Palaeozoic tetrapod biogeography.
Biology Letters, 11, 20150100. Qiao, T. and Zhu, M., 2015.
A new Early Devonian lungfish from Guangxi, China, and its palaeogeographic significance.
Alcheringa, 39, 428-437. 2014Cavin, L. and Gradinaru, E., 2014.
Dobrogeria aegyssensis, a new early Spathian (Early Triassic) coelacanth from North Dobrogea (Romania).
Acta Geologica Polonica, 64, 161-187. Klembara, J., Clack, J. A., Milner, A. R. and Ruta, M., 2014.
Cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of the Late Carboniferous tetrapod Gephyrostegus bohemicus Jaekel, 1902.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34, 774-792. Pardo, J. D., Huttenlocker, A. K. and Small, B. J., 2014.
An exceptionally preserved transitional lungfish from the Lower Permian of Nebraska, USA, and the origin of modern lungfishes.
PLOS ONE, 9, e108542. Sookias, R. B., Bohmer, C. and Clack, J. A., 2014.
Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the mandible of an enigmatic Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous) tetrapod from Nova Scotia, and the lability of meckelian jaw ossification.
PLOS One, 9, e109717. 2013Berman, D. S., 2013.
Diadectimorphs, amniotes or not?
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 60, 22-35. Holland, T., 2013.
Pectoral girdle and fin anatomy of Gogonasus andrewsae Long, 1985: implications for tetrapodomorph limb evolution.
Journal of Morphology, 274, 147-164. Wen, W., Zhang, Q.-Y., Hu, S.-X., Benton, M.J., Zhou, C.-Y., Tao, X., Huang, J.-Y. and Chen, Z.-Q., 2013.
Coelacanths from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, Yunnan, South China, with the earliest evidence of ovoviviparity.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 58, 175-193. 2012Buchwitz, M., Foth, C., Kogan, I. and Voigt, S., 2012.
Phylogenetic approach on the internal relationships of the Chroniosuchia (Tetrapoda: Reptiliomorpha).
Palaeontology, 55, 623-640. Clack, J. A., Witzmann, F., Muller, J. and Snyder, D., 2012.
A colosteid-like early tetrapod from the St. Louis Limestone (Early Carboniferous, Meramecian), St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Fieldiana Life and Earth Sciences, 5, 17-39. Clack, J. A., Ahlberg, P. E., Blom, H. and Finney, S. M., 2012.
A new genus of Devonian tetrapod from north-east Greenland, with new information on the lower jaw of Ichthyostega.
Palaeontology, 55, 73-86. Clement, A. M., 2012.
A new species of long-snouted lungfish from the Late Devonian of Australia, and its functional and biogeographical implications.
Palaeontology, 55, 51-71. Davis, S. P., Finarelli, J. A. and Coates, M. I., 2012.
Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes.
Nature, 486, 247-250. Dutel, H., Maisey, J. G., Schwimmer, D. R., Janvier, P., Herbin, M. and Clement, G., 2012.
The giant Cretaceous coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart & Williams, 1994, and its bearing on Latimerioidei interrelationships.
PLoS One, 7, e49911. Graf, J., 2012.
A new Early Cretaceous coelacanth from Texas.
Historical Biology, 24, 441-452. Lloyd, G. T., Wang, S. C. and Brusatte, S. L., 2012.
Identifying heterogeneity in rates of morphological evolution: discrete character change in the evolution of lungfish (Sarcopterygii; Dipnoi).
Evolution, 66, 330-348. Lu, J., Zhu, M., Long, J. A., Zhao, W.-J., Senden, T. J., Jia, L.-T. and Qiao, T., 2012.
The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China.
Nature Communications, 3, 1-7. Swartz, B., 2012.
Marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of western North America.
PLoS One, 7, e33683. Wendruff, A. J. and Wilson, M. V. H., 2012.
A fork-tailed coelacanth, Rebellatrix divaricerca, gen. et sp. nov. (Actinistia, Rebellatricidae, fam. nov.), from the Lower Triassic of Western Canada.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, 499-511. Zhu, M., Yu, X.-B., Lu, J., Qiao, T., Zhao, W.-J. and Jia, L.-T., 2012.
Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian.
Nature Communications, 3, 772. 2011Klembara, J., 2011.
The cranial anatomy, ontogeny, and relationships of Karpinskiosaurus secundus (Amalitzky) (Seymouriamorpha, Karpinskiosauridae) from the Upper Permian of European Russia.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 161, 184-212. Ruta, M., 2011.
Phylogenetic signal and character compatability in the appendicular skeleton of early tetrapods.
Special Papers in Palaeontology, 86, 31-43. 2010Clement, A. M. and Long, J. A., 2010.
Xeradipterus hatcheri, a new dipnoan from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia, and other new holodontid material.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30, 681-695. Coates, M. I. and Friedman, M., 2010.
Litoptychus bryanti and characteristics of stem tetrapod neurocrania.
In Elliott, D. K., Maisey, J. G., Yu, X. and Miao, D. (eds.) Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes. Verlag Dr Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, p389-416. Holmes, R. B. and Carroll, R. L., 2010.
An articulated embolomere skeleton (Amphibia: Anthracosauria) from the Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) of Nova Scotia.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 47, 209-219. Klembara, J., Clack, J. A. and Cernansky, A., 2010.
The anatomy of palate of Chroniosaurus dongusensis (Chroniosuchia, Chroniosuchidae) from the Upper Permian of Russia.
Palaeontology, 53, 1147-1153. Lu, J. and Zhu, M., 2010.
An onychodont fish (Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii) from the Early Devonian of China, and the evolution of the Onychodontiformes.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277, 293-299. 2009Brazeau, M. D., 2009.
The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins.
Nature, 457, 305-308. Callier, V., Clack, J. A. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2009.
Contrasting developmental trajectories in the earliest known tetrapod forelimbs.
Science, 324, 364-367. Clement, A. M., 2009.
A new genus of lungfish from the Givetian (Middle Devonian) of central Australia.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54, 615-626. Clement, G., Snitting, D. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2009.
A new tristichopterid (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the upper Famennian Evieux Formation (Upper Devonian) of Belgium.
Palaeontology, 52, 823-836. Geng, B.-H., Zhu, M. and Jin, F., 2009.
A revision and phylogenetic analysis of Guizhoucoelacanthus (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from the Triassic of China.
Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 47, 165-177. Holland, T. and Long, J. A., 2009. On the phylogenetic position of Gogonasus andrewsae Long 1985, within the Tetrapodomorpha. Acta Zoologica, 90, 285-296. Klembara, J., 2009.
The skeletal anatomy and relationships of a new discosauriscid seymouriamorph from the Lower Permian of Moravia (Czech Republic).
Annals of Carnegie Museum, 77, 451-483. Milner, A. C., Milner, A. R. and Walsh, S. A., 2009.
A new specimen of Baphetes from Nyrany, Czech Republic and the intrinsic relationships of the Baphetidae.
Acta Zoologica, 90, 318-334. Qiao, T. and Zhu, M., 2009.
A new tooth-plated lungfish from the Middle Devonian of Yunnan, China, and its phylogenetic relationships.
Acta Zoologica, 90, 236-252. Zhu, M., Zhao, W.-J., Jia, L.-T., Lu, J., Qiao, T. and Qu, Q.-M., 2009.
The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters.
Nature, 458, 469-474. 2008Ahlberg, P. E., Clack, J. A., Luksevics, E., Blom, H. and Zupins, I., 2008.
Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology.
Nature, 453, 1199-1204. Ruta, M. and Bolt, J. R., 2008.
The brachyopoid Hadrokkosaurus bradyi from the early Middle Triassic of Arizona, and a phylogenetic analysis of lower jaw characters in temnospondyl amphibians.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 579-592. Snitting, D., 2008.
A redescription of the anatomy of the Late Devonian Spodichthys buetleri Jarvik, 1985 (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from East Greenland.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28, 637-655. Yabumoto, Y., 2008.
A new Mesozoic coelacanth from Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia).
Paleontological Research, 12, 329-343. 2007Apesteguia, S., Agnolin, F. L. and Claeson, K., 2007.
Review of Cretaceous dipnoans from Argentina (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) with descriptions of new species.
Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nueva serie, 9, 27-40. Cavin, L., Suteethorn, V., Bufetaut, E. and Tong, H., 2007.
A new Thai Mesozoic lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) with an insight into post-Palaeozoic dipnoan evolution.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 149, 141-177. Diogo, R., 2007.
The Origin of Higher Clades: Osteology, Myology, Phylogeny and Evolution of Bony Fishes and the Rise of Tetrapods.
Science Publishers, Enfield, pp367. Friedman, M., 2007.
The interrelationships of Devonian lungfishes (Sarcopterygii: Dipnoi) as inferred from neurocranial evidence and new data from the genus Soederberghia Lehman, 1959.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 151, 115-171. Friedman, M., 2007.
Styloichthys as the oldest coelacanth: implications for early osteichthyan interrelationships.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 5, 289-343. Friedman, M., Coates, M. I. and Anderson, P., 2007.
First discovery of a primitive coelacanth fin fills a major gap in the evolution of lobed fins and limbs.
Evolution & Development, 9, 329-337. Warren, A., 2007. New data on Ossinodus pueri, a stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous of Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27, 850-862. 2006Ahlberg, P. E., Smith, M. M. and Johanson, Z., 2006.
Developmental plasticity and disparity in early dipnoan (lungfish) dentitions.
Evolution & Development, 8, 331-349. Daeschler, E. B., Shubin, N. H. and Jenkins, F. A., 2006.
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.
Nature, 440, 757-763. Friedman, M. and Coates, M. I., 2006.
A newly recognized fossil coelacanth highlights the early morphological diversification of the clade.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273, 245-250. Lombard, R. E. and Bolt, J. R., 2006.
The mandible of Whatcheeria deltae, an early tetrapod from the late Mississippian of Iowa.
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An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins.
Nature, 444, 199-202. Ruta, M. and Clack, J. A., 2006.
A review of Silvanerpeton miripedes, a stem amniote from the Lower Carboniferous of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 97, 31-63. Zhu, M., Yu, X.-B., Wang, W., Zhao, W.-J. and Jia, L.-T., 2006.
A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny.
Nature, 441, 77-80. 2005Brazeau, M. D., 2005.
A new genus of rhizodontid (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Lower Carboniferous Horton Bluff Formation of Nova Scotia, and the evolution of the lower jaws in this group.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 1481-1499. Clack, J. A. and Finney, S. M., 2005.
Pederpes finneyae, an articulated tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Western Scotland.
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2, 311-346. Clement, G., 2005.
A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Jurassic of France, and the question of the closest relative fossil to Latimeria.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25, 481-491. Klembara, J., 2005.
A new discosauriscid seymouriamorph tetrapod from the Lower Permian of Moravia, Czech Republic.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 50, 25-48. Klembara, J. and Ruta, M., 2005.
The seymouriamorph tetrapod Ariekanerpeton sigalovi from the Lower Permian of Tadzhikistan. Part II: postcranial anatomy and relationships.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 96, 71-93. 2004Chang, M.-M., 2004.
Synapomorphies and scenarios - more characters of Youngolepis betraying its affinity to the Dipnoi.
In G. Arratia, M. V. H. Wilson and R. Cloutier (eds.) Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, p665-686. Clack, J. A. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2004.
A new stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous of Northern Ireland.
In G. Arratia, M. V. H. Wilson and R. Cloutier (eds.) Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, p309-320. Davis, M. C., Shubin, N. and Daeschler, E. B., 2004.
A new specimen of Sauripterus taylori (Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Famennian Catskill Formation of North America.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24, 26-40. Johanson, Z., 2004.
Late Devonian sarcopterygian fishes from eastern Gondwana (Australia and Antarctica) and their importance in phylogeny and biogeography.
In G. Arratia, M. V. H. Wilson and R. Cloutier (eds.) Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, p287-308. Kissel, R. A. and Reisz, R. R., 2004.
Ambedus pusillus, new genus, new species, a small diadectid (Tetrapoda: Diadectomorpha) from the Lower permian of Ohio, with a consideration of diadectomorph phylogeny.
Annals of Carnegie Museum, 73, 197-212. Schultze, H.-P., 2004.
Mesozoic sarcopterygians.
In G. Arratia and A. Tintori (eds.) Mesozoic Fishes 3 - Systematics, Paleoenvironments and Biodiversity. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munchen, p463-492. Warren, A. and Turner, S., 2004.
The first stem tetrapod from the Lower Carboniferous of Gondwana.
Palaeontology, 47, 151-184. Zhu, M. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2004.
The origin of the internal nostril of tetrapods.
Nature, 432, 94-97. 2003Klembara, J. and Ruta, M., 2003.
The seymouriamorph tetrapod Utegenia shpinari from the ?Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian of Kazakhstan. Part II: postcranial anatomy and relationships.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 94, 75-93. Ruta, M. and Coates, M. I., 2003.
Bones, molecules, and crown-tetrapod origins.
In P. C. J. Donoghue and M. P. Smith (eds.) Telling the Evolutionary Time: Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record. Taylor & Francis, London, p224-262. Ruta, M., Coates, M. I. and Quicke, D. L. J., 2003.
Early tetrapod relationships revisited.
Biological Reviews, 78, 251-345. Ruta, M., Jeffery, J. E. and Coates, M. I., 2003.
A supertree of early tetrapods.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 270, 2507-2516. 2002Clack, J. A., 2002.
An early tetrapod from 'Romer's Gap'.
Nature, 418, 72-76. Zhu, M. and Yu, X.-B., 2002.
A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish.
Nature, 418, 767-770. 2001Clack, J. A., 2001.
Eucritta melanolimnetes from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland, a stem tetrapod showing a mosaic of characteristics.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 92, 75-95. Johanson, Z. and Ahlberg, P. E., 2001.
Devonian rhizodontids and tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha) from East Gondwana.
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