A Hiatus Obscures the Early Evolution of Modern Lineages of Bony Fishes
About half of all vertebrate species today are ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii), and nearly all of them belong to the Neopterygii (modern ray-fins). The oldest unequivocal neopterygian fossils are known from the Early Triassic. They appear during a time when global fish faunas consisted of mostly...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-01-01
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2020.618853/full |