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- Acanthostega - Information from the American Museum of Natural History, with several reconstructions.
www.amnh.org/home/index.html
- Acanthostega gunnari - A detailed analysis of this early tetrapod by the paleontologist who discovered and described it.
tolweb.org/tree?group=Acanthostega&contgroup=Terrestrial_Vertebrates
- Ancient Amphibians Discovered in Iowa - Description of this Mississippian fossil site.
www.igsb.uiowa.edu/browse/amphibs/amphibs.htm
- Basal Tetrapod and Amphibian Trees - A list of cladograms tested for their correspondence with stratigraphic data, with references.
palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/cladestrat/amphibians.html
- Central Pennsylvania Legacies: Fishing for History - An article, accompanying a public radio broadcast, describing the discovery of Hynerpeton bassetti at the Red Hill fossil site. A Real Audio archive of the broadcast is included.
wpsu.psu.edu/Legacies/leg-feb24.html
- Dendrerpeton acadianum - An early temnospondyl found in petrified tree stumps from Joggins, Nova Scotia.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/carboniferous/joggins.html
- Eucritta melanolimnetes - Science update from the journal Nature on an early Carboniferous tetrapod, the name of which translates as "Creature from the Black Lagoon".
helix.nature.com/nsu/980709/980709-3.html
- Evolution of Limbs - A description of the possible effects of the Hox gene family on vertebrate evolution.
www.gate.net/~rwms/EvoLimb.html
- First Footing - A article about the debate between paleontologists and geologists regarding the age of the Celsius Bjerg Group, the fossil site where Ichthyostega and Acanthostega were discovered. From the journal Nature.
helix.nature.com/nsu/990715/990715-5.html
- Fish With Fingers - A description of Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin's discovery of a transitional fish-tetrapod animal.
sln.fi.edu/qa98/biology/journals/part14.html
- Ichthyostega - A detailed description of the first Devonian tetrapod to be discovered.
tolweb.org/tree?group=Ichthyostega&contgroup=Terrestrial_vertebrates
- Neil and Ted's Excellent Adventure - An article describing paleontologists Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler and their search for early tetrapods, from Philadelphia Citypaper.net.
www.cpcn.com/articles/070199/feat.covstory1.shtml
- Out of the Swamps - A description of Casineria, an early tetrapod from Scotland, from Science News Online.
www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/5_22_99/bob1.htm
- Phylogeny of Stegocephalians - Cladistic diagrams, illustrations and references.
tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/chordata/terres_vert_lichen/phylogeny.html
- Romer's Gap - An abstract of a paper by Michael I. Coates and Jennifer A. Clack on early tetrapod evolution.
cimbad.mnhn.fr/publication/geodiv/g95n1a15.html
- Terrestrial Vertebrates - A description of the tetrapods and other digit bearing vertebrates.
tolweb.org/tree?group=Terrestrial_Vertebrates&contgroup=Sarcopterygii
- Tetrapod Origins - An outline of tetrapod evolution.
users.tamuk.edu/Jon.Baskin/Biology/Vertebrate%20Zoology/b3405_ch10.htm
- The Origin of Tetrapods and Temnospondyls - Lecture notes from the Major Features of Vertebrate Evolution class at the University of Toronto.
www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3bio356/lectures/temno.html
- Vertebrate Evolution - Land - A discussion of the required evolutionary adaptations for moving from aquatic life to terrestrial.
fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Tom/bil160/20_verts2.html
- Coming Onto the Land - An article from Discover Magazine describing the discovery of Acanthostega gunnari, an animal that helped revolutionize paleontologists view of tetrapod evolution.
www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/origins/comingonto.html
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