Redescription of the pectoral fin and vertebral column of the rhizodontid fish Barameda decipiens from the lower carboniferous of Australia

LITERATURE CITED

• Ahlberg , P. E. and Johanson , Z. 1998. . Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods . Nature , 395 : 792 – 794 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Andrews , S. M. 1973. . “ Interrelationships of crossopterygians; ” . In Interrelationships of Fishes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 53, Supplement 1 Edited by: Greenwood , P. H. , Miles , R. S. and Patterson , C. 137 – 177 .
   Google Scholar
• Andrews , S. M. 1985. . Rhizodont crossopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland, with a re-evaluation of this group . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences , 76 : 67 – 95 .
   Google Scholar
• Andrews , S. M. and Westoll , T. S. 1970a. . The postcranial skeleton of Rhipidistian fishes excluding Eusthenopteron . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 68 : 391 – 489 .
   Google Scholar
• Andrews , S. M. and Westoll , T. S. 1970b. . The postcranial skeleton of Eusthenopteron foordi Whiteaves . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , 68 : 207 – 329 .
   Google Scholar
• Aquesbi , N. 1988. . Etude d'un Onychodontiforme (Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii) du Dèvonien moyen (Eifelian) du Maroc. Bulletin du Musèum national d'Histoire naturelle . Paris , 10 : 181 – 196 .
   Google Scholar
• Burke , A. C. , Nelson , C. and Tabin , C. 1995. . Hox genes and the evolution of vertebrate axial morphology . Development , 121 : 333 – 346 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coates , M. I. 1996. . The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences , 87 : 363 – 421 .
   Google Scholar
• Coates , M. I. and Clack , J. A. 1991. . Fish-like gills and breathing in the earliest known tetrapod . Nature , 352 : 234 – 235 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daeschler , E. B. and Shubin , N. 1998. . Fish with fingers . Nature , 391 : 133
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davis , M. C. , Shubin , N. H. and Daeschler , E. B. 2001. . Immature rhizodontids from the Devonian of North America . Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology , 156 : 171 – 187 .
   Google Scholar
• Davis , M. C. , Shubin , N. H. and Daeschler , E. B. 2004. . New specimen of Sauripterus taylori (Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Famennian Catskill Formation of North America . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 24 : 26 – 40 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fox , R. C. , Campbell , K. S. W. , Barwick , R. E. and Long , J. A. 1995. . A new osteolepiform fish from the Lower Carboniferous Raymond Formation, Drummond Basin, Queensland . Memoirs of the Queensland Museum , 38 : 97 – 223 .
   Google Scholar
• Godfrey , S. J. 1989. . A rhizodontid crossopterygian from the Upper Mississippian at Greer, West Virginia. Acta Musei Reginaehradecensis S. A.: Scientiae Naturales XXII: 89 – 98 .
   Google Scholar
• Hall , J. 1843. . Natural History of New York. Part IV. Geology, Comprising the Survey of the Fourth Geological District 683 Albany : Carroll and Cook .
   Google Scholar
• Hitchcock , E.-C. 1995. . “ A functional interpretation of the anteriormost vertebrae and skull of Eusthenopteron ” . In Studies on Early Vertebrates (7th International Symposium, 1991 Miguasha Parc, Quebec) Edited by: Arsenault , M. , Lelièvre , H. and Janvier , P. 169 – 285 . Paris : Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle . 17
   Google Scholar
• Jarvik , E. 1972. . Middle and Upper Devonian Porolepiformes from East Greenland with special reference to Glyptolepis groenlandica n. sp . Meddelelser om Gr⊘nland , 187 : 1 – 307 .
   Google Scholar
• Jarvik , E. 1980. . Basic Structure and Evolution of Vertebrates 591 London : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Jarvik , E. 1996. . The Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega . Fossils and Strata , 40 : 1 – 206 .
   Google Scholar
• Jeffery , J. E. 2001. . Pectoral fins of rhizodontids and the evolution of pectoral appendages in the tetrapod stem-group . Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 74 : 217 – 236 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johanson , Z. and Ahlberg , P. E. 1997. . A new tristichopterid (Osteolepiformes: Sarcopterygii) from the Mandagery Sandstone (Late Devonian, Famennian) near Canowindra, NSW, Australia . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences , 88 : 39 – 68 .
   Google Scholar
• Johanson , Z. and Ahlberg , P. E. 1998. . A complete primitive rhizodont from Australia . Nature , 394 : 569 – 573 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Johanson , Z. and Ahlberg , P. E. 2001. . Devonian rhizodontids and tristichopterids (Sarcopterygii; Tetrapodomorpha) from East Gondwana . Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences , 92 : 43 – 74 .
   Google Scholar
• Lebedev , O. A. 1995. . Morphology of a new osteolepidid fish from Russia. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle . Paris , 17 : 287 – 341 .
   Google Scholar
• Long , J. A. 1988. . “ New palaeoniscoid fishes from the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous of Victoria; ” . In Devonian and Carboniferous Fish Studies Edited by: Jell , P. A. 1 – 64 . Sydney : Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists .
   Google Scholar
• Long , J. A. 1989. . A new rhizodontiform fish from the Early Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia, with remarks on the phylogenetic position of the group . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 9 : 1 – 17 .
   Google Scholar
• Long , J. A. and Campbell , K. S. W. 1985. . A new lungfish from the Lower Carboniferous of Victoria, Australia . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria , 97 : 87 – 93 .
   Google Scholar
• Long , J. A. , Barwick , R. E. and Campbell , K. S. W. 1997. . Osteology and functional morphology of the osteolepiform fish Gogonasus andrewsae Long, 1985, from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum . Supplement No. , 53 : 1 – 89 .
   Google Scholar
• Miles , R. S. 1977. . Dipnoan (lungfish) skulls and the relationships of the group: a study based on new species from the Devonian of Australia . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society , 61 : 1 – 328 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morin-Kensicki , E. M. , Melancon , E. and Eisen , J. S. 2002. . Segmental relationship between somites and vertebral column in zebrafish . Development , 129 : 3851 – 3860 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pridmore , P. A. , Campbell , K. S. W. and Barwick , R. E. 1994. . Morphology and phylogenetic position of the holodipteran dipnoans of the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of northwestern Australia . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B , 344 : 105 – 164 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Prince , V. E. , Price , A. L. and Ho , R. K. 1998. . Hox gene expression reveals regionalization along the anteroposterior axis of the zebrafish notochord. Development . Genes and Evolution , 208 : 517 – 522 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rackoff , J. S. 1980. . “ The origin of the tetrapod limb and the ancestry of tetrapods; ” . In The Terrestrial Environment and the Origin of Land Vertebrates. Systematics Association Special Volume No. 15 Edited by: Panchen , A. L. 255 – 292 . London : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Rothschild , B. M. and Martin , L. D. 2000. . Paleopathology: Disease in the Fossil Record 386 Boca Raton : CRC Press, Inc. .
   Google Scholar
• Thomson , K. S. and Vaughn , P. P. 1968. . Vertebral structure in Rhipidistia (Osteichthyes, Crossopterygii) with description of a new Permian genus . Postilla , 127 : 1 – 19 .
   Google Scholar
• Traquair , R. H. 1875. . On some fossil fishes from the neighbourhood of Edinburgh . Annals and Magazine of Natural History , 15 : 258 – 268 .
   Google Scholar
• Vorobyeva , E. I. and Schultze , H.-P. 1991. . “ Description and systematics of panderichthyid fishes with comments on their relationship to tetrapods; ” . In Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods Edited by: Schultze , H.-P and Trueb , L. 68 – 109 . Ithaca : Cornell University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Vorobyeva , E. I. 2000. . Morphology of the humerus in the rhipidistian Crossopterygii and the origin of tetrapods . Paleontological Journal , 34 : 632 – 641 .
   Google Scholar
• Warren , A. A. and Ptasznik , R. 2002. . The earliest fractured tetrapod bone . Alcheringa , 26 : 459 – 463 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Woodward , A. S. 1902. . Preliminary note on a Carboniferous fish fauna from Victoria, Australia . Geological Magazine , 9 : 471 – 473 .
   Google Scholar
• Woodward , A. S. 1906. . On a Carboniferous fish fauna from the Mansfield District, Victoria . Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria , 1 : 1 – 32 .
   Google Scholar