Compared to the skulls of ancestral sarcopterygians and modern lungfish the skulls of Acanthostega and Ichthyostega were ____.     narrower with the eyes more ventrally located narrower more rounded to reduce drag for faster swimming flatter with the eye sockets more dorsally located

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Compared to the skulls of ancestral sarcopterygians and modern lungfish the skulls of Acanthostega and Ichthyostega were ____.
 
 
narrower with the eyes more ventrally located
narrower more rounded to reduce drag for faster swimming
flatter with the eye sockets more dorsally located
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