% pubman genre = article @article{item_3570881, title = {{A new stem-tetrapod fish from the Middle{\textendash}Late Devonian of central Australia}}, author = {Choo, Brian and Holland, Timothy and Clement, Alice M. and King, Benedict and Challands, Tom and Young, Gavin and Long, John A.}, language = {eng}, issn = {0272-4634; 1937-2809}, doi = {10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000}, year = {2023}, date = {2023}, abstract = {{Remote Devonian exposures in central Australia have produced significant but highly fragmentary remains of fish-grade tetrapodomorphs. We describe a new tetrapodomorph from the Middle{\textendash}Late Devonian (Givetian{\textendash}Frasnian) Harajica Sandstone Member of the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory, which is represented by several nearly complete skulls along with much of the body and postcranial skeleton. The new form has a posteriorly broad postparietal shield, broad, triangular extratemporal bones, and a lanceolate parasphenoid. The spiracular openings are particularly large, a character also recorded in elpistostegalians and Gogonasus, demonstrating that these structures, suggestive of spiracular surface air-breathing, appeared independently in widely differing nodes of the stem-tetrapod radiation. A phylogenetic analysis resolves the new form within a cluster of osteolepidid-grade taxa, either as part of a polytomy or as the most basally-branching representative of a clade containing {\textquoteleft}osteolepidids,{\textquoteright} canowindrids, and megalichthyids. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A21E263E-9B2B-4C9B-9B1B-74B53C2CF535.}}, journal = {{Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology}}, volume = {43}, number = {3}, eid = {e2285000}, }