Caridosuctor

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Caridosuctor
Temporal range: Mississippian
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Caridosuctor populosum.jpg
Caridosuctor populosum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family:† Rhabdodermatidae
Genus:† Caridosuctor
Lund & Lund, 1984
Species:
†C. populosum
Binomial name
†Caridosuctor populosum
Lund & Lund, 1984

Caridosuctor is an extinct genus of marine coelacanth that lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). It contains a single species, C. populusum, with fossils known from the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana. [1] [2] [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Rhabdodermatidae - Paleobiology Database
  2. ↑ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
  3. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  4. ↑ Lund, Richard; Lund, Wendy (1984). "New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.)" . Geobios. 17 (2): 237–244. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(84)80145-x. ISSN   0016-6995.


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