Figure 1

Diversity of body shapes among possible independent origins of deep-bodied actinopterygians listed by Sallan and Coates⁹. Lines on the leading margin of fins indicate fringing fulcra. (a) Eurynotiformes. From left to right: Eurynotus, modified from Sallan and Coates⁹, Fig. 15 and Traquair¹⁰, Plate III, Fig. 1; Cheirodopsis, modified from Sallan and Coates⁹, Fig. 15 and Moy-Thomas and Dyne¹¹, Fig. 36; and Amphicentrum, modified from Sallan and Coates⁹, Fig. 15. (b) ‘Lower’ platysomids. From left to right: Platysomus striatus, modified from Haubold and Schaumberg¹², Fig. 104; and Platysomus superbus, modified from Moy-Thomas and Dyne¹¹, Fig. 39. (c) Bobasatraniiformes. From left to right: Platysomus schultzei, drawn from Zidek¹³, Figs. 22 and 24; and Bobasatrania, modified from Schaeffer and Mangus¹⁴, Fig. 11. (d) Adroichthys, modified from Gardiner¹⁵, Fig. 15. (e) Aesopichthys, modified from Poplin and Lund¹⁶, Fig. 12. (f) Frederichthys, modified from Coates¹⁷, Fig. 8. (g) Discoserra, drawn from Lund¹⁸, Figs. 5, 7, 8.