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<==o TETRAPODOMORPHA [Osteolepimorpha] (maaselkärankaismaiset varsieväkalat; landvertebrate-like sarcopterygians)
   |-- †Kenichthys
   `--+-- †RHIZODONTIDA
      `--o †"OSTEOLEPIFORMES"
         |-- †Osteolepididae
         |?- †Thysanolepidae
         `--+-- †Megalichthyidae
            `--+-- †Medoevia
               `--+-- †Canowindridae
                  `--+-- †Gyroptychius
                     `--+-- †Tristichopteridae
                        `--o †ELPISTOSTEGALIA [Panderichthyida]
                           `-- TETRAPODA sensu Goodrich 1930 [landvertebrates = four-limbed vertebrates]


Reference(s):

Ahlberg, P. E. & Milner, A. R. 1994: The origin and early diversification of tetrapods. –Nature: vol. 368, 7 April, pp. 507-514. Ahlberg, P. E. & Johanson, Z. 1998: Osteolepiforms and the ancestry of tetrapods. –Nature: Vol. 395, 22 October, pp. 792-794

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L., 1988: Appendix. 594-648
in Carroll, R. L., 1988: Vertebrate paleontology and evolution.
–W. H. Freeman and company, New York, 1988, 698

Carroll, R. L. 1996: Revealing the patterns of macroevolution. –Nature: vol. 381, 2 May, pp. 19-20.

Long, J. A., 1995: The Rise of Fishes: 500 million years of evolution.
–Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore & London, pp. 1-223

Johanson, Z. & Ahlberg, P. E., 1998: A complete primitive rhizodont from Australia. –Nature: Vol. 394, 6 August, pp. 569-573