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Paleozoic dipnoan phylogeny: functional complexes and evolution without parsimony

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

K. S. W. Campbell  and
R. E. Barwick
K. S. W. Campbell
Affiliation:
Geology Department, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 2601
R. E. Barwick
Affiliation:
Zoology Department, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 2601
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Abstract

Attempts at understanding evolutionary relationships among Paleozoic Dipnoi (lungfish) using cladistic methodology have proved totally unsatisfactory (Miles 1977; Marshall 1987). We attempt to reconstruct the relationships between the better known genera using a method that involves the recognition of lineages based on evolving functional complexes, particularly those involved with food reduction and respiration. Within these broadly defined lineages, we have defined sub-lineages based on evolutionary patterns shown by structures that have been stratigraphically dated; such patterns are found inter alia in the roofing bones and the external dermal bones of the mandible. A number of new suborders and families are recognised; genera for which further morphological data are required before they can be assigned to a higher taxon are indicated; two generic synonyms are recognised.

In appendices, short descriptions are given of two new genera—Pillararhynchus from the Gogo Formation (Upper Devonian) of Western Australia, and Sorbitorhynchus from the Emsian of Guangxi, China.

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Paleobiology , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , Spring 1990 , pp. 143 - 169
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