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==== Sarcopterygii ==== [[File:Coelacanth, Late Late Jurassic, Tithonian Age, Solnhofen Lithographic Limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany - Houston Museum of Natural Science - DSC01858.JPG|thumb|Coelacanth from the Solnhofen Limestone|left]] [[Lungfish]] (Dipnoi) were present in freshwater environments of both hemispheres during the Jurassic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kemp|first1=Anne |last2=Cavin|first2=Lionel|last3=Guinot|first3=Guillaume|date=April 2017|title=Evolutionary history of lungfishes with a new phylogeny of post-Devonian genera|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology|language=en|volume=471|pages=209β219|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.051 |bibcode=2017PPP...471..209K|doi-access=free}}</ref> Some studies have proposed that the last common ancestor of all living lungfish lived during the Jurassic.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Brownstein |first1=Chase Doran |last2=Harrington |first2=Richard C |last3=Near |first3=Thomas J. |date=July 2023 |title=The biogeography of extant lungfishes traces the breakup of Gondwana |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.14609 |journal=Journal of Biogeography |language=en |volume=50 |issue=7 |pages=1191β1198 |doi=10.1111/jbi.14609 |bibcode=2023JBiog..50.1191B |issn=0305-0270}}</ref> [[Mawsoniidae|Mawsoniids]], a marine and freshwater/brackish group of [[coelacanth]]s, which first appeared in North America during the Triassic, expanded into Europe and South America by the end of the Jurassic.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cavin|first1=Lionel|last2=Cupello|first2=Camila|last3=Yabumoto|first3=Yoshitaka|last4=LΓ©o|first4=Fragoso|last5=Deersi |first5=Uthumporn|last6=Brito|first6=Paul M.|date=2019|title=Phylogeny and evolutionary history of mawsoniid coelacanths |url=http://www.kmnh.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A17-3-Cavin.pdf|journal=Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A|volume=17|pages=3β13}}</ref> The marine [[Latimeriidae]], which contains the living coelacanths of the genus ''[[Latimeria]]'', were also present in the Jurassic, having originated in the Triassic, with a number of records from the Jurassic of Europe including ''[[Swenzia]]'', thought to be the closest known relative of living coelacanths.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clement|first=GaΓ«l|date=2005-09-30|title=A new coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) from the Jurassic of France, and the question of the closest relative fossil to Latimeria|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634%282005%29025%5B0481%3AANCASF%5D2.0.CO%3B2 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|language=en|volume=25|issue=3|pages=481β491|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0481:ANCASF]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=86338307 |issn=0272-4634}}</ref>
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