OSTEICHTHYES
Literature and Web Links
LITERATURE
- Ahlberg, P.E. 1991. A re-examination of sarcopterygian
interrelationships, with special reference to the Porolepiformes.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 103:241-287.
- Ahlberg, P. E. and Z. Johanson. 1998. Osteolepiforms
and the ancestry of tetrapods. Nature 395:792-794.
- Carroll, R. H. 1988. Vertebrate paleontology
and evolution. W. H. Freeman & Co. New York.
- Cloutier, R. and P. E. Ahlberg. 1996. Morphology,
characters, and the interrelationships of basal sarcopterygians.
Pages 445-479 in Interrelationships of Fishes (M. L. J. Stiassny,
L. R. Parenti, and G. D. Johnson, eds.) Academic Press, San Diego,
CA.
- Gorr, T., T. Kleinschmidt, and H. Fricke.
1991. Close tetrapod relationships of the coelacanth Latimeria
indicated by hemoglobin sequences. Nature 351:394-397.
- Hedges, S. B., C. A. Hass, and L. R. Maxson.
1993. Relations of fish and tetrapods. Nature 363:501-502.
- Long, J.A.. 1989. A new rhizodontiform fish
from the Early Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia, with remarks
on the phylogenetic position of the group. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 9:1-17.
- Marshall, C. and H. P. Schultze. 1992. Relative
importance of molecular, neontological, and paleontological data
in understanding the biology of the vertebrate invasion of land.
Journal of Molecular Evolution 35:93-101.
- Meyer, A. and S. I. Dolven. 1992. Molecules,
fossils, and the origin of tetrapods. Journal of Molecular Evolution
35:102-113.
- Nelson, J. S. 1994. Fishes of the World.
3rd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York, N.Y.
- Schultze, H.-P. 1994. Comparison of hypotheses
on the relationships of sarcopterygians. Systematic Biology 43:155-173.
- Zhu, M. and H.-P. Schultze. 1997. The oldest
sarcopterygian fish. Lethaia 30:293-304.
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