In Depth
Analysis of Obruchevichthys remains has struck up similarities with a tetrapod named Elginerpeton. This has revealed that Obruchevichthys was also a member of the early tetrapods, not a lobe finned fish as first thought. Along with Elginerpeton, Obruchevichthys predated the other tetrapods by an estimated 5-8 million years.
Further Reading
– Morphology and nature of evolution of crossopterygian fishes. – Trudy Paleontological Institute Akademie Nauk SSSR 163: 1-239. – E. I. Vorobyeva – 1977. – Revision of the early tetrapod Obruchevichthys Vorobyeva, 1977 from the Frasnian (Upper Devonian) of the North-western East European Platform. – Paleontological Journal 48(10):1082-1091. – Ga�l Cl�ment & Oleg Anatolyevich Lebedev – 2014.
