Alcoveria

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Alcoveria
Temporal range: Triassic
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A fossil of Alcoveria brevis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: Mawsoniidae
Genus: Alcoveria
Beltan, 1972

Alcoveria is an extinct genus of mawsoniid coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period. Alcoveria is known from a well preserved specimen from Spain. It lived in a marine environment. [1]

References

  1. Miguel, Raphael; Valéria, Gallo; Morrone, Juan (2014). "Distributional patterns of †Mawsoniidae (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia)" (PDF). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 86 (1): 159–170. doi: 10.1590/0001-3765201420130035 . PMID   24519009. S2CID   37141000.