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An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins

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  • John A. Long

    (Museum Victoria
    The Australian National University
    Monash University)

  • Gavin C. Young

    (The Australian National University)

  • Tim Holland

    (Museum Victoria
    Monash University)

  • Tim J. Senden

    (Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University)

  • Erich M. G. Fitzgerald

    (Museum Victoria
    Monash University)

Abstract

Tetrapods: the long march The evolutionary transition from water to land exerts a continuing fascination, heightened by recent discoveries of transitional fossils in Canada and the reinterpretation as tetrapods (or near-tetrapods) of fossils once classified as fishes. But signs of land life are detectable even further back. A spectacularly preserved 380-million-year old fossil of the fish Gogonasus from the Devonian of Australia is fish-like in many respects, yet features of its ear and limbs are unexpectedly advanced.

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  • John A. Long & Gavin C. Young & Tim Holland & Tim J. Senden & Erich M. G. Fitzgerald, 2006. "An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins," Nature, Nature, vol. 444(7116), pages 199-202, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:444:y:2006:i:7116:d:10.1038_nature05243
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05243
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