Sarcopterygii
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Sarcopterygii is a clade of vertebrate animals which includes a group of bony fishes and all four legged land animals, including humans. The common name for this clade is lobe-finned fish.
Guiyu oneiros, the earliest-known bony fish, lived during the Late Silurian, 419 million years ago). It has the combination of both ray-finned and lobe-finned features, although analysis of the totality of its features places it closer to lobe-finned fish.
Tristichopterid Hyneria reached length up to 3.5 m (11 ft).
Tooth from the sarcopterygian Onychodus from the Devonian of Wisconsin
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Tinirau clackae
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Tinirau is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish from the Middle Devonian of Nevada. Although it spent its entire life in the ocean, Tinirau is a stem tetrapod close to the ancestry of land-living v
3D reconstruction of T. clackae
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