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Sarcopterygii
(redirected from lobe-finned fish)

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Sarcopterygii [sär‚käp·tə′rij·ē‚ī]
(vertebrate zoology)
A subclass of Osteichthyes, including Crossopterygii and Dipnoi in some systems of classification.


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The well-preserved remains of Tiktaalik go a long way, but not quite the whole way, toward filling the gap in the fossil record between the earliest tetrapods and the lobe-finned fish that preceded them, says Clack.
From these lobe-finned fish then arose the earliest members of the tetrapods, or vertebrates with four true limbs.
 
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