Caridosuctor

Extinct genus of coelacanths

Caridosuctor
Temporal range: Mississippian
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Caridosuctor populosum
Scientific classification Edit this 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]

References

  1. ^ Rhabdodermatidae - Paleobiology Database
  2. ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
  3. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. 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.

External links

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  • Fossil fishes of Bear Gulch: Caridosuctor populosum
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Gnathostomata
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Actinistia
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Actinistia sensu lato
"Onychodontiformes"
Actinistia sensu stricto
Miguashaiidae
Diplocercidae
Hadronectoridae
Rhabdodermatidae
Laugiidae
Coelacanthidae
Whiteiidae
Latimerioidei
Mawsoniidae
Latimeriidae
Strunius rolandi

Miguashaia sp. Allenypterus montanus Mawsonia sp.

Latimeria chalumnae
Taxon identifiers
Caridosuctor populosum


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