Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates

ARRATIA, Gloria, Mark V. H. WILSON & Richard CLOUTIER (Herausgeber): Recent Advances in the Origin and Early Radiation of Vertebrates Honoring Hans-Peter Schultze Inhalt Preface 7 Acknowledgements 7 Part 1: Recent Advances in Early Vertebrates Richard CLOUTIER: Hans-Peter SCHULTZE's contribution to our understanding of lower vertebrate evolution 11 Philippe JANVIER: Early specializations in the branchial apparatus of jawless vertebrates: a consideration of gill number and size 29 Valentina KARATAJUTE-TALIMAA & Moya MEREDITH SMITH: Tesakoviaspis concentrica: microskeletal remains of a new order of vertebrate from the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of Siberia 53 Susan TURNER: Early vertebrates: analysis from microfossil evidence 65 Mark V. H. WILSON & Tiiu MÄRSS: Toward a phylogeny of the thelodonts 95 Daniel GOUJET & Gavin C. YOUNG: Placoderm anatomy and phylogeny: new insights 109 Robert K. CARR: Recognizing paraphyletic stem groups: A case study in the analysis of eubrachythoracid arthrodires (Placodermi) 127 John G. MAISEY: Endocranial morphology in fossil and recent chondrichthyans 139 Richard LUND & Eileen D. GROGAN: Two tenaculum-bearing Holocephalimorpha (Chondrichthyes) from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Chesterian, Serpukhovian) of Montana, USA 171 Gavin F. HANKE & Mark V. H. WILSON: New teleostome fishes and acanthodian systematics 189 Richard CLOUTIER & Gloria ARRATIA: Early diversification of actinopterygians 217 Min ZHU & Xiaobo YU: Lower jaw character transitions among major sarcopterygian groups - a survey based on new materials from Yunnan, China 271 Zerina JOHANSON: Late Devonian sarcopterygian fishes from eastern Gondwana (Australia and Antarctica) and their importance in phylogeny and biogeography 287 Jennifer A. CLACK & Per E. AHLBERG: A new stem tetrapod from the Early Carboniferous of Northern Ireland 309 Robert L. CARROLL, Catherine BOISVERT, John BOLT, David M. GREEN, Noah PHILIP, Campbell ROLIAN, Rainer SCHOCH & Anna TARENKO: Changing patterns of ontogeny from osteolepiform fish through Permian tetrapods as a guide to the early evolution of land vertebrates 321 Rainer R. SCHOCH & Andrew R. MILNER: Structure and implications of theories on the origin of lissamphibians 345 Johannes MÜLLER: The relationships among diapsid reptiles and the influence of taxon selection 379 Richard A. KISSEL & Robert R. REISZ: Synapsid fauna of the Upper Pennsylvanian Rock Lake Shale near Garnett, Kansas and the diversity pattern of early amniotes 409 Part 2: Recent Advances in Fishes Elga MARK-KURIK: Buchanosteids (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from Central Asia 431 Marius ARSENAULT, Sylvain DESBIENS, Philippe JANVIER & Johanne KERR: New data on the soft tissues and external morphology of the antiarch Bothriolepis canadensis (WHITEAVES, 1880), from the Upper Devonian of Miguasha, Quebec 439 David K. ELLIOTT, Randal C. REED & Elizabeth J. LOEFFLER: A new species of Allocryptaspis (Heterostraci) from the Early Devonian, with comments on the structure of the oral area in cyathaspidids 455 Michal GINTER: Devonian sharks and the origin of Xenacanthiformes 473 Oliver HAMPE, Z. Sarah ABOUSSALAM & R. Thomas BECKER: Omalodus teeth (Elasmobranchii: Omalodontida) from the northern Gondwana margin (middle Givetian: ansatus conodont Zone, Morocco) 487 Richard LUND & Eileen D. GROGAN: Five new euchondrocephalan Chondrichthyes from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Serpukhovian, Namurian E2b) of Montana, USA 505 Rodrigo SOLER-GIJÓN: Development and growth in xenacanth sharks: new data from Upper Carboniferous of Bohemia 533 Colin D. LITTLE & William E. BEMIS: Observations on the skeleton of the heterocercal tail of sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) 563 Paulo M. BRITO & Pascal P. DEYNAT: Freshwater stingrays from the Miocene of South America with comments on the rise of potamotrygonids (Batoidea, Myliobatiformes) 575 Gloria ARRATIA & Richard CLOUTIER: A new cheirolepidid fish from the Middle-Upper Devonian of Red Hill, Nevada, USA 583 Eric J. HILTON: The caudal skeleton of Acipenseriformes (Actinopterygii: Chondrostei): recent advances and new observations 599 Christopher FIELITZ: The phylogenetic relationships of the +Enchodontidae (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) 619 Gloria ARRATIA, Adriana LÓPEZ-ARBARELLO, Guntupalli V. R. PRASAD, Varun PARMAR & Jürgen KRIWET: Late Cretaceous-Paleocene percomorphs (Teleostei) from India - Early radiation of Perciformes 635 CHANG Mee-mann: Synapomorphies and scenarios - more characters of Youngolepis betraying its affinity to the Dipnoi 665 Michael D. GOTTFRIED, Raymond R. ROGERS & Kristina CURRY ROGERS: First record of Late Cretaceous coelacanths from Madagascar 687 Index of taxa