A Microanatomical and Histological Study of the Postcranial Dermal Skeleton of the Devonian actinopterygian Cheirolepis canadensis

@article{Zylberberg2015AMA,
  title={A Microanatomical and Histological Study of the Postcranial Dermal Skeleton of the Devonian actinopterygian Cheirolepis canadensis},
  author={Louise Zylberberg and François Jean Meunier and Michel Laurin},
  journal={Acta Palaeontologica Polonica},
  year={2015},
  volume={61},
  pages={363 - 376}
}
The Devonian stem-actinoterygian Cheirolepis canadensis is potentially important to understand the evolution of the dermal skeleton of osteichthyans, but the last detailed histological study on this taxon was published more than forty years ago. Here, we present new data about the morphology and the histological structure of scales, fulcra, and fin-rays in the Devonian actinopterygian Cheirolepis canadensis through SEM and photomicroscopy. The scales have a typical palaeoniscoid organisation… 
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