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Edward B. 'Ted' Daeschler is an American vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a specialist in fish paleontology, especially in the Late Devonian, and in the development of the first limbed vertebrates. He is the discoverer of the transitional fossil tetrapod Hynerpeton bassetti, and a Devonian fish-like specimen of Sauripterus taylori with fingerlike appendages, and was also part of a team of researchers that discovered the transitional fossil Tiktaalik.
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References
- Ahlberg, Per E.; Johanson, Z.; Daeschler, E. B. (2001). "The Late Devonian lungfish Soederberghia (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from Australia and North America, and its biogeographical implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 21 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0001:TLDLSS]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 130513725.
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