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The Devonian tetrapod Acanthostega gunnari Jarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution
- M. Coates
- Biology
- 1996
The postcranial skeleton of Acanthostega gunnari from the Famennian of East Greenland displays a unique, transitional, mixture of features conventionally associated with fishand tetrapod-like… Expand
Early tetrapod relationships revisited
- M. Ruta, M. Coates, D. Quicke
- Medicine, Biology
- Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical…
- 1 May 2003
In an attempt to investigate differences between the most widely discussed hypotheses of early tetrapod relationships, we assembled a new data matrix including 90 taxa coded for 319 cranial and… Expand
A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution
- Imogen A. Hurley, R. Mueller, +7 authors M. Coates
- Medicine, Biology
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological…
- 22 February 2007
The Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) is the largest and most diverse vertebrate group, but little is agreed about the timing of its early evolution. Estimates using mitochondrial genomic data… Expand
Dates, nodes and character conflict: Addressing the Lissamphibian origin problem
Synopsis Extant amphibians consist of Salientia (frogs), Caudata (salamanders), and Gymnophiona (caecilians). The mutual relationships of these groups are controversial, with either Batrachia… Expand
A new technique for identifying sequence heterochrony.
- J. Jeffery, O. R. Bininda-Emonds, M. Coates, M. K. Richardson
- Medicine, Biology
- Systematic biology
- 1 April 2005
Sequence heterochrony (changes in the order in which events occur) is a potentially important, but relatively poorly explored, mechanism for the evolution of development. In part, this is because of… Expand
A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa
- R. Gess, M. Coates, B. Rubidge
- Medicine, Biology
- Nature
- 26 October 2006
Lampreys are the most scientifically accessible of the remaining jawless vertebrates, but their evolutionary history is obscure. In contrast to the rich fossil record of armoured jawless fishes, all… Expand
End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates
The Devonian marks a critical stage in the early evolution of vertebrates: It opens with an unprecedented diversity of fishes and closes with the earliest evidence of limbed tetrapods. However, the… Expand
Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes
- Samuel P X Davis, J. Finarelli, M. Coates
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 14 June 2012
Acanthodians, an exclusively Palaeozoic group of fish, are central to a renewed debate on the origin of modern gnathostomes: jawed vertebrates comprising Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays and ratfish) and… Expand
A supertree of early tetrapods
- M. Ruta, J. Jeffery, M. Coates
- Medicine, Biology
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
- 7 December 2003
A genus–level supertree for early tetrapods is built using a matrix representation of 50 source trees. The analysis of all combined trees delivers a long–stemmed topology in which most taxonomic… Expand
Endocranial preservation of a Carboniferous actinopterygian from Lancashire, UK, and the interrelationships of primitive actinopterygians
- M. Coates
- Biology
- 28 February 1999
The gross brain structure of an Upper Carboniferous (ca. 310 Myr ago) ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) is described from exceptionally well-preserved fossil material from the Burnley region of… Expand