Onychodontidae
Encyclopedia
Onychodontidae is an extinct family of sarcopterygian
fishes which lived in the Early Devonian period.
Sarcopterygii
The Sarcopterygii or lobe-finned fishes – sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii constitute a clade of the bony fishes, though a strict classification would include the terrestrial vertebrates...
fishes which lived in the Early Devonian period.
Phylogeny
- Sarcopterygii
- DiabolepisDiabolepisDiabolepis is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish related to lungfishes which lived in the Early Devonian period of South China...
- D. speratus
- LangdeniaLangdeniaLangdenia is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish....
- L. campylognatha
- MeemanniaMeemanniaMeemannia is a genus of extinct sarcopterygian fishes from the early Devonian period. It was found in Yunnan, China. As preserved, it consists mainly of skull roofing bones and a partial otic region of the braincase...
- M. eos
- PsarolepisPsarolepisPsarolepis is a genus of extinct lobe-finned fish which lived around 397 to 418 million years ago . Fossils of Psarolepis have been found mainly in South China and described by paleontologist Xiaobo Yu in 1998...
- P. romeri
- Onychodontida
- ?P. romeri
- Onychodontidae
- QingmenodusQingmenodusQingmenodus is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish. Fossils of Qingmenodus were found in China and date back to the Early Devonian period. Qingmenodus reveals the first well-ossified otoccipital braincase in onychodonts. Palaeontologists believe that Qingmenodus was one of the oldest onychodont...
- Q. yui
- GrossiusGrossiusGrossius is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period of Spain....
- G. aragonensis
- OnychodusOnychodusOnychodus is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Devonian period . It is one of the best known of the group of onychodontiform fishes. Scattered fossil bones of Onychodus were first discovered in 1857, in North America, and described by John Strong Newberry...
- O. jaekeli
- O. jandemarrai
- O. sigmoides
- O. yassensis
- LuckeusLuckeusLuckeus was an onychodontid fish which lived during the Early Devonian to Middle Devonian period in central Australia....
- L. abudda
- ?Onychodontidae
- StruniusStruniusStrunius is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish from the Devonian period of Germany.Although it was a lobe-finned fish Struniuss fins were supported by fin rays, which are more associated with ray-finned fish. However, its skull was composed of two articulating halves, a feature characteristic of...
- S. walteri
- S. rolandi
- Qingmenodus
- Onychodontidae
- ?P. romeri
- Diabolepis