Internal cranial anatomy of Early Triassic species of †Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: †Saurichthyiformes): implications for the phylogenetic placement of †saurichthyiforms

Internal cranial anatomy of Early Triassic species of †Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: †Saurichthyiformes): implications for the phylogenetic placement of †saurichthyiforms

Abstract Background †Saurichthyiformes were a successful group of latest Permian–Middle Jurassic predatory actinopterygian fishes and constituted important, widely-distributed components of Triassic marine and freshwater faunas. Their systematic affinities have long been debated, with †saurichthyifo...

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Main Authors: Thodoris Argyriou, Sam Giles, Matt Friedman, Carlo Romano, Ilja Kogan, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-11-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Actinopterygii
†Saurichthys
Chondrostei
Acipenser
Triassic
Microtomography (μCT)
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1264-4

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