elpistostegid

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noun

Any lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.

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Meanings

nounelpistostegid (plural elpistostegids)

plural elpistostegids

  1. biologyAny lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.

    The recently discovered elpistostegid Tiktaalik probably already had a pair of fins, which could function like vertebrate limbs in shallow waters.

    2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 64
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