elpistostegid

English

Noun

elpistostegid (plural elpistostegids)

1. (paleontology) Any lobe-finned fish of the extinct family †Elpistostegidae, from the late Devonian period.
   • 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 64:

     The recently discovered elpistostegid Tiktaalik probably already had a pair of fins, which could function like vertebrate limbs in shallow waters.