subclass_crossopterygii (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *subclass Crossopterygii*:
NOUN	animal	subclass Crossopterygii, Crossopterygii	fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians

English > *subclass Crossopterygii*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians.
Synonym	Crossopterygii
Member of	Osteichthyes, class Osteichthyes	A class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage
Members	Latimeridae, family Latimeridae	Extinct except for the coelacanth
Members	crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish	Any fish of the order Crossopterygii
Broader	class	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
Spanish	crosopterigio

HyperDic: subclass_crossopterygii