TRANSITION BETWEEN FISH AND AMPHIBIAN

  • Significant changes took place in the transition between fish and amphibians.
  • The fish-amphibian transition shows the upper surface gradually pulling back the orbits, postorbital region, and the relative position of the pineal foramen.
  • The parietals enclosing the pineal foramen are shaded diagonally in the picture and the postparietal bones are stippled.

Transition between fish and amphibian: (A) fish skull (B)Intermediate between fish and amphibian (C) Amphibian
Notice that the bone marked 'u' on the left on a fish is much shorter than 'u' on the right for a tetrapod