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Rabu, 2026-07-01 05:34:04most ray-finned fish (except some teleosts). The caudal fin is either heterocercal (only fossil taxa) or diphycercal. The coelacanth is one type of living...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:20:14often fan-shaped. The tail may be heterocercal, reversed heterocercal, protocercal, diphycercal, or homocercal. Heterocercal: vertebrae extend into the upper...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 16:28:21long-lived, late-maturing fishes with distinctive characteristics, such as a heterocercal caudal fin similar to those of sharks, and an elongated, spindle-like...
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Senin, 2026-08-17 23:40:25Polypteriforms). Additional shared features include spiracles and, in sturgeons, a heterocercal tail (the vertebrae extend into the larger lobe of the caudal fin). However...
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Senin, 2026-08-10 13:36:18flexible. One of the primary characteristics present in most sharks is the heterocercal tail, which aids in locomotion. Chondrichthyans have tooth-like scales...
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Kamis, 2026-08-20 00:55:02ctenoid scales Endoskeleton Cartilaginous Mostly bony Caudal fin Heterocercal Heterocercal or diphycercal Pelvic fins Usually posterior. Mostly anterior...
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Senin, 2026-08-17 08:34:24species, due to their evolution in separate environments. Sharks possess a heterocercal caudal fin in which the dorsal portion is usually noticeably larger than...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 01:19:59was a small animal, up to about 60 centimetres (2 ft) long. It had a heterocercal caudal fin, and large spines on two dorsal fins. Unlike other chondrichthyans...
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Jumat, 2026-08-21 03:56:58for new territories. Named for their exceptionally long, thresher-like heterocercal tail or caudal fins (which can be as long as the total body length),...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:26:40length. It has been referred to as a freshwater shark because of its heterocercal tail or caudal fin resembling that of sharks, though it is not closely...
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Rabu, 2026-08-12 06:15:45anal fin. The caudal fin has a larger upper lobe than the lower lobe (heterocercal). Whale sharks have been found to possess dermal denticles on the surface...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 01:16:24are included. The cephalaspidomorphs possessed armored head-shields, a heterocercal tail fin, and in some groups paired pectoral fins. Cephalaspidomorphs...
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Jumat, 2026-08-21 17:04:29which provide the main source of thrust for the shark. Most sharks have heterocercal caudal fins, meaning that the backbone extends into the (usually longer)...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 06:18:43fin claspers used in mating, like modern sharks. Hybodonts had a fully heterocercal tail fin, where the upper lobe of the fin was much larger than the lower...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 02:06:10males and 65.6 cm for females. This species is a ground shark and has a heterocercal caudal fin bearing an elongate upper lobe, triangular and broad dorsal...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 01:58:43spots along its back. The caudal fin has asymmetrical lobes, forming a heterocercal tail. The species name acanthias refers to the shark's two spines. These...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:46:23below by fins of similar size. In callorhinchids, the tail is instead heterocercal, with a larger upper lobe inclined upwards, similar to many sharks. There...
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Selasa, 2026-06-23 23:20:44toward the back of their bodies, and their caudal fins are abbreviate heterocercal, or nonsymmetrical. Alligator gar have gills, but unlike many species...
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Senin, 2026-08-03 16:04:20can be distinguished from sympatric M. canis by the lower lobe on its heterocercal tail fin, which is sharply pointed and posteriorly directed in M. norrisi...
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Minggu, 2026-07-26 02:10:26mid-back to the base of the tail. The caudal fin is a single lobe, though heterocercal. They can grow up to 109 cm (43 in) in length, and weigh 9.75 kg (21...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 18:36:05superficial resemblance to a very small porgie, scup, or sea bream, but with a heterocercal tail fin. Bartram, A. W. H. 1977. The Macrosemiidae, a Mesozoic family...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 09:09:02contours of the ventral lobe. Basal species had a rather asymmetric or "heterocercal" tail fin. The asymmetry differed from that of sharks in that the lower...
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Senin, 2026-07-27 00:43:53common to their ancestors, including a modified (rounded externally) heterocercal caudal fin, a highly vascularized gas bladder lung, vestiges of a spiral...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:20:07typical characteristics of other sturgeon, such as an elongated body, heterocercal tail, partially cartilaginous skeleton, naked skin and longitudinal series...
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Selasa, 2026-03-31 07:53:12morphological features: a spindle-shaped body with smooth, scaleless skin, a heterocercal tail, and small, poorly developed eyes. The earliest known paddlefish...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 20:48:55big upper lobe and a smaller lower lobe. That shape is called heterocercal. Heterocercal tails help create both speed and lift to counteract sinking. The...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:13:40similarly elongated jaws filled with long, sharp teeth. Their tails are heterocercal, and the dorsal fins are close to the tail. Gar jaws are elongated and...
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Minggu, 2026-07-05 22:18:56the body having a long, unornamented dorsal fin spine, as well as a heterocercal tail fin. Johnson-Ransom, Evan D.; Popov, Evgeny V.; Deméré, Thomas A...
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Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:46:15Shared traits such as gilled larvae, ganoid scales, and a modified heterocercal tail suggest a close relationship to multiple extant ancestral groups...
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Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:51:19caudal fin variety among Stethacanthus species; while some had low angle heterocercal tails, some had tails approaching homocercal. The broad hypochordal lobe...
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Jumat, 2026-08-21 06:13:59body. The caudal fin is elongated with a long upper lobe (i.e. strongly heterocercal). They have two large, broad-based grey dorsal fins set back beyond the...
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Jumat, 2026-06-26 23:55:53an anal fin, a pair of pectoral fins, a pair of pelvic fins, and a heterocercal tail. All of these fins help stabilise the shark, but in males, the pelvic...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 07:38:19mostly cartilaginous skeleton in the bowfins. In gars, the tail is still heterocercal but less so than in the chondrosteans. Bowfins have many-rayed dorsal...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 09:48:11evolved after that split. Correspondingly, these fish also have both heterocercal tails and stiff, wing-like pectoral fins which provide the necessary...
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Kamis, 2026-08-13 07:47:32of total body length. Its eyes were small and round. The tail fin was heterocercal (spine extending into the upper lobe), with the lower lobe being well...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 11:14:00metres (3.9 ft) long or larger. Bobasatraniiformes have a deepend body, a heterocercal caudal fin, and they often lack pelvic fins (present in Dorypterus, very...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 04:31:29active swimmers, countering earlier hypotheses that the development of a heterocercal tail was necessary for this lifestyle. The Huixingshao Formation preserves...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 03:48:18and were approximately 2.9 cm (1.1 in) in length. The caudal fin was heterocercal, with the upper lobe longer than the lower lobe. There is no evidence...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-09 01:36:00peduncle. The scales are small, rhombic and lack a ganoine layer. The heterocercal tail fin is large and deeply forked. The dorsal and anal fins are situated...
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Sabtu, 2026-08-01 20:27:58dorsal fins, a set of three anal fins (5 in total) and a long tapering Heterocercal caudal fin. Bandringa had a long rostrum and may have been analogous...
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Kamis, 2026-07-30 20:25:46Kenshu Shimada; Cynthia K. Rigsby (2013). "Anatomy and Evolution of Heterocercal Tail in Lamniform Sharks". The Anatomical Record. 296 (3): 433–442. doi:10...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:51:45first dorsal fin with a spine, paired pectoral and pelvic fins, and heterocercal caudal fins. The bodies of debeeriids were completely scaleless, and...
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Kamis, 2025-11-13 22:50:30one very small inner cusp. The animal had an elongated body, a forked, heterocercal tail fin, and a covering of dermal denticles. It had a single dorsal...
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Minggu, 2025-09-28 15:43:34exceeding 40 kg (88 lb). Like other sturgeons it has an elongated body, heterocercal tail, partially cartilaginous skeleton, naked skin and longitudinal series...
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Senin, 2026-08-03 16:04:12which is located closer to the head. Like all shark species, they have heterocercal caudal fins, where the upper part is longer than the lower. E. schultzi...
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Rabu, 2025-08-20 22:47:52including the position of its two large spines and the presence of a heterocercal tail. In addition to this type specimen, a second potential specimen...
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Rabu, 2025-07-02 06:39:05and anal fins were virtually opposed to each other. The caudal fin was heterocercal. Pteronisculus had a wide geographic range during the Early Triassic...
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Selasa, 2026-08-18 20:23:46thin rays called ceratotrichia. The caudal fin of many holocephalans is heterocercal with a long upper lobe, although in some groups it is leptocercal (also...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:35:46and its eyes were located in the front of the skull. Acrolepis had a heterocercal tail fin and fusiform body. The body was covered in thick ganoid scales...
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Rabu, 2024-05-15 03:10:42are much smaller than the pectoral fins. The forked caudal fin is hemi-heterocercal due to a heavy lobe extending into the dorsal lobe of the fin, but outwardly...
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Minggu, 2025-06-22 08:39:04the pectoral fins were slightly larger. The caudal fin was slightly heterocercal, while there was a single branchiostegal reduced to a plate-shaped bone...
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Minggu, 2025-11-23 06:53:25the fin by about four blocks of calcified cartilage. The caudal fin is heterocercal, but approaches a functional homocercal condition. Most Stethacanthids...
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 04:23:23dorsal fins, an anal fin, pectoral fins, pelvic fins, and most of the heterocercal caudal fin. Both dorsal fins were proportionally large, as were the broad...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 07:29:55these and the hypercercal and much larger hypocercal lobes forming a heterocercal tail resemble features of modern fish that are associated with their...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:34:57fins as hydrofoils while their bodies remain horizontal. In sharks, the heterocercal tail shape drives water downward, creating a counteracting upward force...
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Minggu, 2026-07-05 22:19:17posterior parts of its body. The caudal fin is partially between the heterocercal condition of Dipterus and the diphycercal shape of Sirenidae. The rays...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:37:33are similar in color. Like the shovelnose sturgeon, their tails are heterocercal, with the top tail fin being longer than the bottom fin, though this...
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 04:25:26117-148. Crofts S. B., Shehata R. and Flammang B. E. 2019. Flexibility of Heterocercal Tails: What Can the Functional Morphology of Shark Tails Tell Us about...
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Sabtu, 2026-07-04 17:51:20articulation, and the arrangement and structure of the fins, including the heterocercal caudal fin. However, these features are plesiomorphic for actinopterygians...
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Minggu, 2026-07-05 20:33:04just at the base of the caudal (tail) fin. The caudal fin itself is heterocercal, meaning the vertebral column extends into the upper lobe and consists...
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Rabu, 2026-08-19 04:10:43specimen, Bindellini and colleagues predicted that it would have been heterocercal, with a much smaller upper lobe than lower. While this shape of tail...
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Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:08:28fins, 2 rounded pectoral fins, 2 pelvic fins, an anal fin, and a long heterocercal caudal fin. It can get up to 1.5 feet in size with its tail taking up...
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Minggu, 2026-07-12 07:17:46Like many antiarchs, B. canadensis also had narrow pectoral fins, a heterocercal caudal fin (meaning the notochord extends into the upper lobe of the...
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Senin, 2024-09-16 05:26:15(or upper lip) to the most posterior point of the opercular margin. heterocercal (of a fin) Not symmetric, e.g. in sharks. homocercal (of a fin) Symmetric...
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Selasa, 2026-01-06 16:22:45anal fin which length is half of the dorsal fin, and deeply notched heterocercal caudal fin. Its body is covered by moderately sized cycloid scales. Its...
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Senin, 2026-07-27 20:48:13relatively large eyes with a long snout and an inferior mouth. It has a heterocercal-shaped caudal fin with a black edge (or margin) that traces the shape...
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Senin, 2026-06-08 01:17:29works have identified two dorsal fins, pectoral and pelvic fins, and a heterocercal caudal fin. Teeth were present in rows both inside the jaws and on the...
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Senin, 2026-07-13 07:23:27and pelvic fins arising from fleshy lobes. The caudal (tail) fin was heterocercal, with a long low upper (epichordal) blade and a rounded lower (hypochordal)...
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Senin, 2026-08-03 16:04:21M. schmitti also has pectoral fins, pelvic fins, an anal fin, and a heterocercal caudal fin (the top caudal fin lobe is larger than the bottom lobe)....
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Sabtu, 2026-07-04 17:46:54approximately a third of the way from the tail end. The tail fin is heterocercal with the lower lobe being slightly longer with larger rays. It has no...
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Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:36:13PMID 30836867. S. B. Crofts; R. Shehata; B. Flammang (2019). "Flexibility of heterocercal tails: what can the functional morphology of shark tails tell us about...
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Selasa, 2025-09-23 18:50:51sizeable, with a large terminal mouth and numerous teeth. The tail was heterocercal. The remaining fins with the exception of the pectoral fins were situated...
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Rabu, 2026-08-05 21:03:11fins, triangular pectoral fins, paired pelvic fins, an anal fin, and a heterocercal caudal fin. The second dorsal has a dark to black tip and all other fins...
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Kamis, 2026-08-06 03:34:13offshoot of ancestral chondrosteans, retaining such ancestral features as a heterocercal tail, fin structure, jaw structure, and spiracle. They have replaced...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 09:23:17hints at their preferred method of hunting. This species' ancestral heterocercal caudal tail has a longer upper lobe with shortened lower lobe. A quality...
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Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:17:33PMID 30836867. S. B. Crofts; R. Shehata; B. Flammang (2019). "Flexibility of heterocercal tails: what can the functional morphology of shark tails tell us about...
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