Meeting Abstract S3-2.1  Saturday, Jan. 5  Feeding and swallowing on land VAN WASSENBERGH, S.*; MICHEL, K.; Univ. Antwerpen, Belgium; Univ. Antwerpen, Belgium sam.vanwassenbergh@ua.ac.be An important step towards understanding the evolution of terrestriality in vertebrates is to identify how the aquatic ancestors of tetrapods were able to access ground-based prey. Since several extant lineages of bony fishes show […]

Meeting Abstract S3-2.3  Saturday, Jan. 5  Comparative appendicular function during terrestrial locomotion: implications for the invasion of land KAWANO, S.M.*; BLOB, R.W.; Clemson Univ.; Clemson Univ. skawano@clemson.edu The invasion of land was a pivotal event in vertebrate evolution that was associated with major appendicular modifications. Although fossils indicate that the evolution of fundamentally limb-like appendages may have […]