Forerunners of four legs

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 1998 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 395, pages 748-749 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: Philippe Janvier;

doi: 10.1038/27332

Forerunners of four legs

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Since the 1930s, palaeontologists have thought that four-legged land vertebrates (or tetrapods) evolved from a group of lobe-finned fishes called osteolepiforms. This is now confirmed by an analysis of the osteolepiforms, which concludes that they are actually an ensemble of primitive tetrapodomorphs. This is a large group that, as expected, also includes the tetrapods.

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Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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National Museum of Natural History
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