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Onychodontiformes

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Also known as Struniiformes, Onychodontida

Onychodontiformes (also known as Onychodontida and Struniiformes) is an order of prehistoric sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period. The onychodontiforms are generally regarded as early-diverging members of the coelacanth lineage.

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Parent taxon
Sarcopterygii
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Commons category
Onychodontiformes
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order
taxon name
Onychodontiformes
topic's main category
Category:Onychodontida
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Onychodontiformes (also known as Onychodontida and Struniiformes) is an order of prehistoric sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period. The onychodontiforms are generally regarded as early-diverging members of the coelacanth lineage.

==Phylogeny== The following cladogram is adapted from Mondéjar-Fernández (2020). The study recovered Onychodontiformes as a paraphyletic group, which is shown in green:

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