Megalichthyiformes
Sign in to saveMegalichthyiformes is an extinct clade of basal tetrapodomorphs which first appeared during the Devonian period. It was named in 2010 by Michael I. Coates and Matt Friedman, who defined it as a stem-based taxon containing all tetrapodomorphs closer to Megalichthys than to Eusthenopteron.
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- Tetrapodomorpha
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Megalichthyiformes is an extinct clade of basal tetrapodomorphs which first appeared during the Devonian period. It was named in 2010 by Michael I. Coates and Matt Friedman, who defined it as a stem-based taxon containing all tetrapodomorphs closer to Megalichthys than to Eusthenopteron.
Below is a cladogram showing Megalichthyiformes modified from Swartz (2012).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Megalichthyiformes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.