osteoglossomorph

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osteoglossomorph (plural osteoglossomorphs)

  1. Any fish of the superorder Osteoglossomorpha.
    • 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Postcranial pneumaticity is absent in all other extant vertebrates with the known exceptions of osteoglossomorph fish and the hyoid bone in howler monkeys.
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