Rhabdoderma
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Rhabdoderma Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
Family: | †Rhabdodermatidae |
Genus: | †Rhabdoderma Reis, 1888 |
Type species | |
elegans | |
Other species | |
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Rhabdoderma is an extinct genus of coelacanth fish in the class Sarcopterygii. It lived in the Carboniferous and Early Triassic (Induan), and its fossils have been found in Europe, Madagascar and North America.[1][3] The type species was originally described as Coelacanthus elegans.
Bibliography
- Discovering Fossil Fishes by John Maisey and John G. Maisey
See also
References
- ^ a b c Forey, Peter L. (1998). History of the coelacanth fishes. London: Chapman & Hall. p. 434. ISBN 9780412784804.
- ^ fossilworks.org
- ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
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- Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
- Carboniferous fish of Europe
- Carboniferous fish of North America
- Triassic fish of Africa
- Fossils of Madagascar
- Fossil taxa described in 1888
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