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]

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Onychodontiformes
Temporal range: Pragian–Famennian Possible Lochkovian record[1]
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Reconstruction of Onychodus
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Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Crown-Sarcopterygii

References

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