Onychodontiformes

Onychodontiformes Temporal range: Pragian–Famennian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possible Lochkovian record [1]
Reconstruction of Onychodus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Order:	† Onychodontiformes Andrews, 1973
Genera
† Bukkanodus Johanson et al., 2007 † Grossius Schultze, 1973 † Luckeus Young & Schultze, 2005 † Onychodus Newberry, 1857 † Qingmenodus Lu & Zhu, 2009 † Selenodus Mondéjar-Fernández, 2020 † Strunius Jessen, 1966

Onychodontiformes (also known as Onychodontida and Struniiformes) is an order of prehistoric sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period. The onychodontiforms are generally regarded as early-diverging members of the coelacanth lineage. ^{[2] [1]}

Phylogeny

The following cladogram is adapted from Mondéjar-Fernández (2020). The study recovered Onychodontiformes as a paraphyletic group, which is shown in green: ^[1]

Crown-Sarcopterygii	Styloichthys Rhipidistia Dipnomorpha Tetrapodomorpha Bukkanodus Selenodus Grossius Onychodus Qingmenodus Strunius Actinistia Euporosteus Gavinia Miguashaia Diplocercides Latimeria Onychodontiformes

References

1. Mondéjar-Fernández, J. (2020). "A new onychodont (Osteichthyes; Sarcopterygii) from the Middle Devonian of Morocco and its bearing on early osteichthyan evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (7): 573–606. doi:10.1080/14772019.2019.1655495. S2CID   208586697.
2. Lu, J.; Zhu, M.; Ahlberg, P. E.; Qiao, T.; Zhu, Y.; Zhao, W.; Jia, L. (2016). "A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians". Science Advances. 2 (6) e1600154. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E0154L. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600154. PMC   4928971 . PMID   27386576.

External links

• Onychodontiformes at Palaeos
• Onychodontida phylogeny at Mikko's Phylogeny Archive Archived 2008-01-26 at the Wayback Machine