fish-forms

Updated: May 9, 2025

But throughout all, we see the rise, culmination, and decay of many transitory and apparently preparatory groups such as, for example, the Labyrinthodons and Urodelas preceding the modern types of Amphibia; ancient fish-forms preceding modern ones, and either dying out or leaving but a few and distant representatives; or again, the whole tribes of ancient Saurians, of which something has already been said.

Baden Henry Baden-Powell - Creation and Its Records