Origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle and pectoral fins – overturned

Brazeau et al 2023 report,"The past 150 years of debate has been shaped by two contentious theories: the ventrolateral fin-fold hypothesis and the archipterygium hypothesis. The latter proposes that fins and girdles evolved from an ancestral gill arch. Although studies in animal development have revived interest in this idea, it is apparently unsupported by fossil…

The Pterosaur Heresies, There's something very wrong with our pterosaurs.

Frontiers Early evolution of the lungfish pectoral-fin endoskeleton: evidence from the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Pentlandia macroptera

GEOL431 - Vertebrate Paleobiology

Pectoral and Pelvic Girdles – Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton

Extreme Modification of the Tetrapod Forelimb in a Triassic Diapsid Reptile - ScienceDirect

The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb

Origin of the vertebrate pectoral girdle and pectoral fins – overturned

The Pterosaur Heresies, There's something very wrong with our pterosaurs.

GEOL431 - Vertebrate Paleobiology

Digital restoration of the pectoral girdles of two Early Cretaceous birds and implications for early-flight evolution

A Bayesian approach to dynamic homology of morphological characters and the ancestral phenotype of jawed vertebrates