Osteolepididae
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Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans. Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Osteolepididae is referenced by 180 other articles, and connects out to Tetrapoda, Osteichthyes and Tetrapodomorpha.
It is catalogued under topics including Devonian extinctions, Devonian first appearances and Devonian sarcopterygians.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans. Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.
== Genera == Below is a list of genera regarded as osteolepidids at some point: Chrysolepis Ectosteorhachis Geptolepis Glyptopomus Gogonasus Greiserolepis Gyroptychius "Diplopterus" Kenichthys Latvius Medoevia Megalichthys Megapomus Megistolepis Muranjilepis Osteolepis Peregrina Shirolepis Thursius
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