Elpistostegalia
Elpistostegalia, also known as Panderichthyida, is a type of prehistoric fish which lived about 385 to 374 million years ago.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Eotetrapodiformes |
| Clade: | Elpistostegalia Camp & Allison, 1961 |
| Type genus | |
| Elpistostege Westoll, 1938
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Why they evolved
A rise in the world's oxygen content caused predatory fish to evolve,[3] and this fish was the most successful.[4]
What they evolved from
Below is a description of their evolutionary family tree.[1]
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Elpistostegalia Media
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Restoration of Acanthostega gunnari
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Swartz, B. (2012). "A marine stem-tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America". PLOS ONE. 7 (3): e33683. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...733683S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033683. PMC 3308997. PMID 22448265.
- ↑ Elpistostegidae on the Taxonomicon
- ↑ Dahl TW, Hammarlund EU, Anbar AD, et al. (October 2010). "Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107 (42): 17911–5. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10717911D. doi:10.1073/pnas.1011287107. PMC 2964239. PMID 20884852.
- ↑ Lewis Jr., William M. (1 June 1970). "Morphological Adaptations of Cyprinodontoids for Inhabiting Oxygen Deficient Waters" (PDF). Copeia. 2 (2): 319–326. doi:10.2307/1441653. JSTOR 1441653. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-13.