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The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb

Shubin, N.H.; Daeschler, E.B.; Jenkins, F.A. Jr

Year2006
Source roleprimary-study
DOI / ID10.1038/nature04637

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The Tiktaalik pectoral-fin endoskeleton contains a robust humerus, radius and ulna, wrist-like joints and distal radials capable of transmitting load while retaining lepidotrichial fin rays; it is a fin, not a free-digit limb or a recorded walking trace.

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