Osteolepididae
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Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans. Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.
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Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans. Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.
== Genera == Below is a list of genera regarded as osteolepidids at some point: Chrysolepis Ectosteorhachis Geptolepis Glyptopomus Gogonasus Greiserolepis Gyroptychius "Diplopterus" Kenichthys Latvius Medoevia Megalichthys Megapomus Megistolepis Muranjilepis Osteolepis Peregrina Shirolepis Thursius