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tetrapod (noun) - In zoology, a tetrapod is a four-limbed vertebrate, including mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The term tetrapod is often used to distinguish these vertebrates from fish, which typically have fin-like appendages
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  • Any vertebrate with four limbs.
  • Any vertebrate (such as birds or snakes) that has evolved from early tetrapods; especially any member of the superclass Tetrapoda
  • A concrete structure with arms, used to arrest wave energy along the shore in sea defence projects.
  • Having four limbs or feet

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Toes are the digits of the foot of a tetrapod.
A tetrapod is something with four legs.
Acanthostega is the earliest example of a digitized tetrapod.
It referred to tetrapod fossils on an unnamed mountain.
They were then fixed to the inside of a tetrapod chamber.
The first tetrapod found outside of tropical regions.
They occur as casts of tetrapod trackways.
Devonian tetrapod fossils are found in widely scattered localities.
This is the embryo of a tetrapod.
Comparison with other tetrapod lineages identifies factors limiting body size.
Some localities are well known for their abundance of tetrapod fossils.
Whales and hummingbirds have tetrapod skeletons inherited from a common ancestor.
This evolutionary transition appears to have left its mark on tetrapod development.
Tetrapod Zoology seems to cover most subjects concerning tetrapods.
Since it was found in the stream bed this tetrapod most likely livedin the water.

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The prefrontal bone is a bone separating the lacrimal and frontal bones in many tetrapod skulls.
An alternate origin for tetrapod limbs was identified in the lateral fins by Francis Balfour.
These embryonic membranes and the lack of a larval stage distinguish amniotes from tetrapod amphibians.
Evidence of tetrapod burrows is also found in the lower member of the Fremouw Formation.
The existence of a quaternary structure has been demonstrated for several tetrapod LHs and fish GTHs.
This suggests tetrapod evolution is older than the dated fossils of Panderichthys through to Ichthyostega.
The Harderian gland occurs in the orbit of most tetrapod vertebrates.
A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle.
The pelvic fin and girdle of Panderichthys and the origin of tetrapod locomotion.
List of record labels Tetrapod Spools discography.
Gephyrostegus, a small terrestrial tetrapod.
It is the first Devonian tetrapod to be found in Asia.
Furthermore, frogs exhibit the greatest diversity of reproductive modes for current tetrapod vertebrates.
Ymeria is an extinct genus of early tetrapod from the Devonian of Greenland.
Its skeleton shows several features that were like those of a four-legged land animal tetrapod.
Must be the ancestral tetrapod in me, begging to return to the water.
However, there are issues with supposing that Tiktaalik is a tetrapod ancestor.
You will not find a tetrapod so soon, it will take years of work.
Pederpes is placed in the family Whatcheeriidae, of uncertain relationships to other tetrapod families.
Like their amphibious tetrapod predecessors, they had lungs and limbs.
Get some good digging in today . An unlikely spot to hunt for early tetrapod fossils.
Eiselti is the largest tetrapod to lack lungs, double the size of the next largest.
At the end she had the most complete early tetrapod skeleton ever found ;.
In recent decades, numerous tetrapod fossils dating from the earliest Carboniferous have been found.
With the close of the Carboniferous, the amniotes became the dominant tetrapod fauna.
However, much remains unknown about how tetrapod hyoids and tongues evolved.
Pederpes was 1 m long, making it average-sized for an early tetrapod.
These fins evolved into the legs of the first tetrapod land vertebrates, amphibians.
The oldest types of tetrapod tail-and-footprints date back to the latter Devonian period.
Some years later, however, scientists in Poland found evidence of fossilised tetrapod tracks predating Tiktaalik.
His research on the Devonian tetrapod " Ichthyostega " was continued by Erik Jarvik.
Right now, I am doing magazine research about this popular band, Tetrapod Melon Tea.
The tetrapod ( four-legged animals ) body plan is quite limiting in this respect.
Traditionally, the class Amphibia includes all tetrapod vertebrates that are not amniotes.
The first Devonian tetrapod identified from Asia was recognized from a fossil jawbone reported in 2002.

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