Sentences with phrase «tetrapod features»

A few that pop to mind are the Coconino Sandstone, the meandering / lateral channels in the Grand Canyon, the progressive order of the fossil record (complete with a pre-hominid through hominid progression), forms which bear features bridging the specially - created kinds (i.e. fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian features, etc), the presence of anomalous morphological / genetic features (e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male nip - ples, the presence of a defunct gene for egg - yolk production in our own placental mammal genomes), etc, etc..

Fish with tetrapod features, reptiles with mammalian features, reptiles with avian feature all exist in the correct temporal / morphological order.

Not exact matches

The fossil fish Tiktaalik, discovered in 2006, dates back to the same period, and its skeleton bears many more similarities to tetrapods than to the placoderms described in Long's article — including homologous arm bones and shoulder, neck and ear features.

This crucial evolutionary transition is preserved in the fossilised remains of animals called stem tetrapods, which have some features of fish and some of four - legged animals.

«When you look at the entirety of the Haramiyavia jaw and its primitive features, it's clear that this group sat at the very base of the mammalian family tree, much in the same way that Tiktaalik rosea sat at the base of the tetrapod tree.»