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air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins

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2007) to include all known specimens of Trinity Group lungfishes from north-central Texas.

Lungfishes from the trinity group cretaceous of north texas

"This makes us believe that breathing air arose twice at this early time in vertebrate evolution: once in lungfishes, and once in the fish lineage leading to land animals, and ultimately to us," he said.

Lack of oxygen may have forced fish to evolve into first air-breathing animals

The natural history of African lungfishes. J.Morphol.

Handed behavior in hagfish-an ancient vertebrate lineage and a survey of lateralized behaviors in other invertebrate chordates and elongate vertebrates

Previous reports of North American ceratodontids suggest that crushing-toothed lungfishes dominated Cretaceous Interior Seaway coastal systems.

A new lungfish dipnoi: ceratodontidae from the cretaceous woodbine formation, Arlington archosaur site, north Texas

Acrosomes have been distinguished in the spermatozoa of fish species such as hagfishes (Jespersen, 1975; Alvestad-Graevner and Adam, 1977; Morisawa, 1995), lampreys (Stanley, 1967; Nicander and Szoden, 1971; Jaana and Yamamoto, 1981), elasmobranchs (Stanley, 1971), sturgeons (Cherr and Clark, 1984), lungfishes (Jespersen, 1971), and coelacanths (Mattei et al., 1988).

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