Biology:Onychodontiformes

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Short description: Extinct order of fishes

Onychodontiformes
Temporal range: Pragian–Famennian
Possible Lochkovian record[1]
Reconstruction of Onychodus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Order: †Onychodontiformes
Andrews, 1973
Genera

Onychodontiformes (also known as Onychodontida and Struniiformes) is an order of prehistoric sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period. The onychodontiforms are generally regarded as early-diverging members of the coelacanth lineage.[2][1]

Phylogeny

The following cladogram is adapted from Mondéjar-Fernández (2020). The study recovered Onychodontiformes as a paraphyletic group, which is shown in green:[1]

Crown-Sarcopterygii
 
 

Styloichthys

 
Rhipidistia
 

Dipnomorpha

 
 

Tetrapodomorpha

 
 
 
 
 

Bukkanodus

 
 
 

Selenodus

 
 
 
 
 

Grossius

 
 

Onychodus

 
 
 
 

Qingmenodus

 
 

Strunius

 
 
 
Actinistia
 

Euporosteus

 
 

Gavinia

 
 

Miguashaia

 
 
 

Diplocercides

 
 

Latimeria

 
 
 
 
 
Onychodontiformes
 
 

References

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