Caridosuctor Temporal range: | |
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Caridosuctor populosum | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]