were fish, not amphibia, when the transition to limbs occurred. The term fishapod is sometimes used. They would have been derived from lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii)...

characteristics led one of its discoverers, Neil Shubin, to call Tiktaalik a 'fishapod'. This, and other species like it, prove that legs started to develop before...

vertebrae made of 4 pieces. †Ichthyostegalia : term no longer used; see 'Fishapods', below. †Temnospondyli (possible ancestors of modern amphibians) †Lepospondyli...

and the early labyrinthodonts, like Tiktaalik, are informally called 'fishapods' by their discoverers. They are half-fish half-tetrapods, in appearance...

are to be found amongst the lobe-fins of the Devonian period. The term 'fishapod' is becoming used for this transitional group. Sarcopterygians and their...

Ichthyostega (meaning 'roof fish') is an extinct fishapod. It lived in Greenland during the Late Devonian. Ichthyostega was one of the first vertebrates...

Acanthostega (meaning 'spiny roof') was an extinct fishapod. It was one of the first vertebrates to have recognizable limbs. It appeared in the Upper Devonian...

ISBN 0-521-78673-8. The Devonian is sometimes called the Age of Fish. see Tetrapod#fishapods for discussion and references. McGhee, George R. Jr, 1996. The late Devonian...

tetrapods in a series of transitional fossils. Clack adopted the term "fishapod" to describe these animals. They then colonized the freshwater swamps of...

land in the Devonian period (408–362 million years ago). Whereas the fishapods lived near the shore in muddy water, the coelacanths lived in open water...

Carboniferous and beginning of Permian Period. 390 million years - first fishapods 575 million years - age of the oldest animal fossils 580 million years...

species of osteolepiforms. Digital life reconstruction Late Devonian "fishapods", including Panderichthys Niedzwiedzki, G., Szrek, P., Narkiewicz, K....

transition. Sometime, in the later Devonian or earliest Carboniferous, the fishapods became mainly land-based. One group of them kept their link to the water...