Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

TJ Near, CE Thacker - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2024 - BioOne
Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the
designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late …

The lower jaw of Devonian ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): anatomy, relationships, and functional morphology

B Igielman, RT Figueroa, R Higgins, SE Pierce… - bioRxiv, 2025 - biorxiv.org
Actinopterygii is a major extant vertebrate group, but limited data are available for its earliest
members. Here we investigate the morphology of Devonian actinopterygians, focusing on …

A Portrait of a Young Fish: Redescription of Pteronisculus gunnari (Nielsen, 1942) from a juvenile specimen from the Early Triassic of East Greenland, with …

I Cavicchini, T Argyriou, V Fernandez, K Dollman… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The Early–Middle Triassic actinopterygian genus Pteronisculus (White, 1933) is part of the
Triassic Early Fish Fauna (TEFF), a cosmopolitan group of taxa that thrived in the aftermath …

Hidden Patterns of Ray-Finned Fish Evolution: Bridging Paleontology and Neuroanatomy

R Tinoco Figueroa - 2024 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
The fossil record of ray-finned fishes dates back to more than 400 million years and the
clade is remarkably diverse in extant settings. However, there is still little understanding of …