Ichthyostegalia
Paraphyletic group of tetrapodomorphs / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ichthyostegalia is an order of extinct amphibians, representing the earliest landliving vertebrates. The group is thus an evolutionary grade rather than a clade.[1] While the group are recognized as having feet rather than fins, most, if not all, had internal gills in adulthood and lived primarily as shallow water fish and spent minimal time on land.
Ichthyostegalia* | |
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Ichthyostega, the nominal genus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Tetrapoda |
Order: | †"Ichthyostegalia" Säve-Söderbergh, 1932 |
Genera | |
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The group evolved from elpistostegalian fish in the late Devonian,[2] or possibly in the middle Devonian.[3][4] They continued to thrive as denizens of swampland and tidal channels throughout the period. They gave rise to the Temnospondyli and then disappeared during the transition to the Carboniferous.[5]