Tiktaalik has been fully scanned and the type specimen reconstructed by Tom Stewart (formerly of the lab, now with his own at Penn State.) So many surprises in the skeleton, not the least of which is the pelvic fin, pelvis, and its likely connection to the spine. See the preprint here https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.11.523301v1
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