''Cladarosymblema'' is a
genus
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of
prehistoric lobe-finned fish
Sarcopterygii (; ) — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii () — is a taxon (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fishes known as the lobe-finned fishes. The group Tetrapoda, a mostly terrestrial superclass includ ...
which belonged to the
family
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of
Megalichthyidae
Megalichthyidae is an extinct family of tetrapodomorphs which lived from the Middle– Late Devonian to the Early Permian. They are known primarily from freshwater deposits, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere (Europe, the Middle East, North Afr ...
.
References
Clement AM, Cloutier R, Lu J, Perilli E, Maksimenko A, Long J. 2021. A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography. PeerJ 9:e12597 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12597
Megalichthyiforms
Prehistoric bony fish genera
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