- Sarcopterygian Fishes - A step
toward land
- John Maisey, in his "Discovering
Fossil Fishes" uses the classification "Sarcopterygian"
to include the three modern groups of lobe-finned osteichthyans
- the coelacanths, lungfishes, and tetrapods (amphibians). All
have fleshy fins or limbs. (p122).
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