Teleostomi
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Proper noun
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- (dated) A paraphyletic group, consisting of jawed vertebrates that includes the Tetrapoda, Osteichthyes (bony fish, now thought descended from placoderms), and the wholly extinct Acanthodii fishes, but excludes Chondrichthyes (rays, sharks, etc), now thought to share ancestry with the †Acanthodii.
See also
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edit- Teleostomi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vertebrata (classifications) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Teleostomi at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Teleostomi at Index to Organism Names
- Teleostomi at Paleobiology Database
- Acanthodii at Paleobiology Database
- “Teleostomi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.