JENKINS, Farish Alston (1940 – 2012)
1940 – 2012
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
2006 CE
#14085
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan.
The authors showed that: 1) This transitional species had a set of features representing a major departure from the pattern in more primitive sarcopterygian fishes. 2) They presented data to indicate that Tiktaalik li…
2006 CE
#14084
The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb.
In 2004 Shubin, Daeschler and Jenkins discovered the first well-preserved Tiktaalik fossils in on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada. Tiktaalik is a non-tetrapod member of Osteichthyes (bony fish) from the late Devon…