Crossopterygii


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Noun1.Crossopterygii - fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians
subclass Crossopterygii
class Osteichthyes, Osteichthyes - a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage
crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish - any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
family Latimeridae, Latimeridae - extinct except for the coelacanth
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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Elasmobranchii (Acanthodii), Holocephali, Ichthyodorulites, Ostracodermi, Dipnoi, and Teleostomi (Crossopterygii and Chondrostean Actinopterygii).
New finds of fishes in the lower uppermost Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Central Russia and habitats of the Khovanshchinian vertebrate assemblages
Porolepis (Crossopterygii) from the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains.
A plant-root system in the Lower Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland
Rohon (1893) revised Upper Silurian fishes of Saaremaa, assigning Oniscolepis Pander in the family Pteraspidae, order Crossopterygii, subclass Ganoidei.
Late Silurian--early Devonian tessellated heterostracan Oniscolepis Pander, 1856 from the East Baltic and North Timan/ Tessereeritud heterostraak Oniscolepis Pander, 1856 Baltikumi ja Pohja-Timaani Hilis-Silurist ning Vara-Devonist

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