Air-breathing adaptation in a marine Devonian lungfish

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Authors

Clement, Alice

Long, John

Publisher

Royal Society of London

Abstract

Recent discoveries of tetrapod trackways in 395Myr old tidal zone deposits of Poland (Niedźwiedzki et al. 2010 Nature 463, 43-48 (doi:10.1038/nature. 08623)) indicate that vertebrates had already ventured out of the water and might already have developed

Keywords

Keywords: oxygen; sea water; air-breathing organism; Devonian; evolutionary biology; fossil record; marine record; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; paleontology; specialization; teleost; adaptation; animal; article; Australia; breathing mechanics; environment; fish; Air-gulping; Devonian; Dipnoi; Gogo formation; Rhinodipterus

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/59805

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Biology Letters

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1098/rsbl.2009.1033

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2037-12-31

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