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Article: Non-autostylic Pennsylvanian iniopterygian fishes

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 23
Part: 2
Publication Date: May 1980
Page(s): 315 324
Author(s): Barbara J. Stahl
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Abstract

Further study of iniopterygian fishes from the Pennsylvanian of North America has shown that autostylic jaw suspension is not, as was originally thought, a characteristic of the group. Two of the five genera possess palatoquadrate elements that articulate with the neurocranium, a fact that calls for modification of the history of the mandibular arch tentatively proposed for these fishes.
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