The oldest sarcopterygian fish

Lethaia

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 293-304

  Min, Zhu ^a   Schultze, Hans Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

China; Late Silurian; Phylogeny; Sarcopterygii

Indexed keywords

COELACANTHIMORPHA; CROSSOPTERYGII; DIPNOI; PISCES; POROLEPIFORMES; SARCOPTERYGII; TETRAPODA;

FISH; PHYLOGENY; SARCOPTERYGII; SILURIAN; SILURIA;

CHINA, YUNNAN PROVINCE, QUJING;

EID: 0031284411     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1997.tb00472.x     Document Type: Article

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