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Hyneria
Fossil range: Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Subphylum:Vertebrata
Class:Sarcopterygii
Subclass:Tetrapodomorpha
Superorder:Osteolepidida
Family:Tristichopteridae
Genus:Hyneria
Binomial name
Hyneria lindae
Hyneria was a prehistoric predatory lobe-finned fish that lived during the Devonian period. It was approximately 2-3 meters in length[1] and weighed as much as two tons. In 1968, fossilized teeth, bones and a tail fin were found by Keith Thompson in the Red Hill Shale of Pennsylvania[2]. Hyneria was a member of the family Tristichopteridae, along with its close relative Eusthenopteron.

In popular culture

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Hyneria attacking the shark Stethacanthus, as depicted in Walking With Monsters.
Hyneria was featured in the BBC's television series Walking With Monsters. It featured a beached female Hyneria attempting to catch prey by sliding along the muddy ground like a walrus to catch two Hynerpeton (with the narrator explaining that it could "attack like a killer whale after a seal"). This behavior is entirely speculative, based on the fact that the fish had powerful fleshy fins, like those of a coelacanth, that could possibly have enabled it to move short distances on land (though most modern researchers consider early tetrapods and their ancestors to have been mainly aquatic).

References

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Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from roughly 416 to 359 million years ago. It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Vertebrata
Cuvier, 1812

Classes and Clades

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Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata (within the phylum Chordata), specifically, those chordates with backbones or spinal columns.
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Sarcopterygii

Subclasses
  • Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanths
  • Dipnoi - Lungfishes
  • Tetrapodomorpha - Tetrapods


Sarcopterygii (from Greek sarx, flesh, and pteryx
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Tetrapodomorpha
Ahlberg, 1991

Subgroups
  • See text


Tetrapodomorpha is a clade of vertebrates, consisting of sarcopterygians with a number of features of tetrapods.
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Tristichopteridae

Genera
  • See Genera of Tristichopterids
Tristichopterids (Tristichopteridae), were a diverse and successful group of tetrapodomorph fishes throughout the Late Devonian stage.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Prehistory (Latin, præ = before Greek, ιστορία = history) is a term often used to describe the period before written history. Paul Tournal originally coined the term Pré-historique
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Sarcopterygii

Subclasses
  • Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanths
  • Dipnoi - Lungfishes
  • Tetrapodomorpha - Tetrapods


Sarcopterygii (from Greek sarx, flesh, and pteryx
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Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from roughly 416 to 359 million years ago. It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
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Eusthenopteron
Whiteaves, 1881

Species
  • E. foordi (type)
  • E. savesoderberghi
  • E. waengsjoei
  • E. wenjukowi


Eusthenopteron
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Type Broadcast radio and television
Country  United Kingdom
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Founder John Reith
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Walking with Monsters (also distributed as Before the Dinosaurs: Walking With Monsters) is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles.
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Odobenidae
Allen, 1880

Genus: Odobenus
Brisson, 1762

Species: O.
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Hynerpeton

Binomial name
Hynerpeton bassetti
Daeschler et al., 1994

Hynerpeton (IPA: [haɪnɚpətɒn]
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Orcinus

Species: O. orca

Binomial name
Orcinus orca
Linnaeus, 1758

Orca range (in blue)


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Pinnipeds ("fin-feet", lit. "winged feet") are marine mammals belonging to the former biological suborder Pinnipedia (sometimes now a superfamily) of the order Carnivora. The pinnipeds now fall within the suborder Caniformia and comprise the families Odobenidae (walruses),
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Coelacanthimorpha

Order: Coelacanthiformes
Berg, 1937

Families

See text.

Coelacanth ('hollow spine' in Greek, coelia (κοιλιά) meaning hollow and
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