Evolution of median fin patterning and modularity in living and fossil osteichthyans

• France Charest ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: France Charest, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Richard Cloutier

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: charest.france@sepaq.com

  Affiliations Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada, Parc National de Miguasha, Nouvelle, Québec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9288-2121

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• Jorge Mondéjar Fernández ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: France Charest, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Richard Cloutier

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie–Paris, Département Origines & Évolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7207 (MNHN–Sorbonne Université–CNRS), Paris, France

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• Thomas Grünbaum,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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• Richard Cloutier

  Contributed equally to this work with: France Charest, Jorge Mondéjar Fernández, Richard Cloutier

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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