Morphometric analysis of lungfish endocasts elucidates early dipnoan palaeoneurological evolution

The lobe-finned fish, lungfish (Dipnoi, Sarcoptergii), have persisted for ~400 million years from the Devonian Period to present day. The evolution of their dermal skull and dentition is relatively well understood, but this is not the case for the central nervous system. While the brain has poor pre...

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Main Authors: Alice M Clement, Tom J Challands, Richard Cloutier, Laurent Houle, Per E Ahlberg, Shaun P Collin, John A Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2022-07-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/73461