Onychodontiformes
Extinct order of fishes
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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.[2][1]
| Onychodontiformes Temporal range: Possible Lochkovian record[1] | |
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| Reconstruction of Onychodus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Order: | †Onychodontiformes Andrews, 1973 |
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Phylogeny
The following cladogram is adapted from Mondéjar-Fernández (2020). The study recovered Onychodontiformes as a paraphyletic group, which is shown in green:[1]
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