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Noun
elpistostegid (plural elpistostegids)
- (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.