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- proper noun A taxonomic
superclass within theinfraphylum Gnathostomata — thetetrapods .
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Examples
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The clade consists of and contains the clades Pisces and Tetrapoda.
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In turn, Tetrapoda consists of and contains Amphibia and Amniota.
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The clade consists of and contains the clades Pisces and Tetrapoda.
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It is misleading, but there is a clade Tetrapoda Reptiliomorpha Amniota Reptilia.
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There is widespread evidence for handedness across Tetrapoda (including in whales), so does this mean that all fin whales are right-handed, or left-handed?
Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006
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There is widespread evidence for handedness across Tetrapoda (including in whales), so does this mean that all fin whales are right-handed, or left-handed?
Lunging is expensive, jaws can be noisy, and what’s with the asymmetry? Rorquals part III Darren Naish 2006
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The morphological consensus looks as follows: (Coelacanths(Lungfishes(Eusthenopteron(Panderichthys;Tetrapoda))))
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The mandibular arch in the developing fish is abruptly angled, as in the embryo of Tetrapoda; the upper prong of it ossifies into the palatine and pterygoid; at the angle is formed the quadrate (jugal, Cuvier), and to the quadrate is articulated the lower jaw, which ossifies round the lower prong or Meckel's cartilage.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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He fully recognised the great analogy of the embryonic arrangement of gill-arches and gill-arteries in Tetrapoda with their arrangement in fish (i., pp. 53, 73).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Tetrapoda, what type of guarantee were you offering?
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