Osteolepiformes
Temporal range: Middle Devonian to Late Carboniferous
Osteolepis
Osteolepis
Scientific classificationEdit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: Osteolepiformes
Berg, 1937
Groups included
Cladistically included but traditionally excluded taxa

Osteolepiformes, also known as Osteolepidida, is a group of prehistoric lobe-finned fishes which first appeared during the Devonian period. The order contains the families Canowindridae, Megalichthyidae, Osteolepididae and Tristichopteridae. The order is generally considered to be paraphyletic because the characters that define it are mainly attributes of stem tetrapodomorphs.[1]

Below is a cladogram showing the paraphyly of Osteolepiformes compiled and modified from Ahlberg and Johanson (1998).[1] See also Swartz (2012).[2] Osteolepiformes is marked by the green bracket.

Tetrapodomorpha

Kenichthys

Rhizodontida

Barameda

Gooloogongia

Gogonasus

Osteolepis

Megalichthys

Cladarosymblema

Ectosteorhachis

Medoevia

Koharolepis

Canowindra

Beelarongia

Gyroptychius

Tristichopteridae

Eusthenodon

Mandageria

Cabonnichthys

Platycephalichthys

Jarvikina

Eusthenopteron

Tristichopterus

Panderichthys

Tetrapoda

Acanthostega

Ichthyostega

Osteolepiformes

References

  1. 1 2 Ahlberg, P. E.; Johanson, Z. (1998). "Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods" (PDF). Nature. 395 (6704): 792–794. Bibcode:1998Natur.395..792A. doi:10.1038/27421. S2CID 4430783. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  2. Swartz, B. (2012). "A marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America". PLOS ONE. 7 (3): e33683. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...733683S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033683. PMC 3308997. PMID 22448265.


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