Crossword-Solution: CROSSOPTERYGII
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Crossopterygii | n. pl. | An order of ganoid fishes including among living species the bichir (Polypterus). See Brachioganoidei. |
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| DEVONIAN lobe-finned fish | 1 answer |
| LOBE-finned fish | 1 answer |
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Sentences with CROSSOPTERYGII (5)
Among the anomalous forms of Old Red fishes not referable to Huxley’s Crossopterygii is the _Pterichthys,_ of which five species have been found in the middle division of the Old Red of Scotland.
There were so many fishes, especially primitive fishes (of the shark type) and plated fishes, during the Devonian, and also during the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that we may describe the whole paleozoic period as "the age of fishes." Among the paleozoic plated fishes or Ganoids the Crossopterygii and the Ctenodipterina (dipneusts) are of great importance.
Huxley, to whom we owe particularly important works on the fossil Ganoids, classed them in the order of the Crossopterygii.
Part of these Crossopterygii approach very closely in their chief anatomic features to the Dipneusts, and thus represent phylogenetically the transition from the Devonian Ganoids to the earliest air-breathing vertebrates.
There were so many fishes, especially primitive fishes (of the shark type) and plated fishes, during the Devonian, and also during the Carboniferous and Permian periods, that we may describe the whole paleozoic period as “the age of fishes.” Among the paleozoic plated fishes or Ganoids the Crossopterygii and the Ctenodipterina (dipneusts) are of great importance.