Mylacanthus

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Mylacanthus
Temporal range: early Olenekian [1]
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Mylacanthus (10) and other Triassic marine predators [2]
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Mylacanthus

Stensiö, 1921
Type species
Mylacanthus lobatus
Stensiö, 1921
Other species

Mylacanthus spinosusStensiö, 1921

Mylacanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish that lived during the Smithian (early Olenekian) age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Svalbard. [3] [4] [1]

Two species are known, the type species Mylacanthus lobatus and a second species, M. spinosus. The fossils of both of these species were collected from the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation. Mylacanthus had an estimated body length of 60 cm (24 in) to 80 cm (31 in). [1] [5]

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