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The hyobranchial skeleton of the porolepiform rhipidistian Laccognathus panderi Gross is described. The double composition of the ceratohyal in crossopterygians is proposed. The urohyal of porolepiforms, like that of Latimeria, consists of cartilaginous axial and membranous peripheral portions. The differences between porolepiforms and osteolepiforms in the structure of the hyobranchial skeleton, particularly, in the shape of the urohyal are attributable to different arrangements of the hypobranchial muscles. Porolepiforms and coelacanths have retained the coracomandibularis muscle inherited from early gnathostomes, whereas the same muscle of osteolepiforms was transformed into the geniohyoideus muscle. This transformation is accounted for by functional changes in the hyobranchial apparatus.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Kanyukin, 2006, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2006, No. 3, pp. 63–75.
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Kanyukin, A.A. Hyobranchial skeleton and hypobranchial muscles of rhipidistians. Paleontol. J. 40, 297–311 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030106030117
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