Dictyonosteus Temporal range: Devonian | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Family: | † Diplocercidae |
Genus: | † Dictyonosteus Stensiö, 1918 |
Dictyonosteus is a genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Late Devonian period. Fossils have been found in Spitsbergen, Norway. [1]
Prof Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö HFRSE, né Andersson, was an influential Swedish paleozoologist and founder of the so-called "Stockholm School" of vertebrate paleontology. He later took his new surname, Stensiö, from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names