Caridosuctor
| Caridosuctor Temporal range: Carboniferous
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| Caridosuctor populosum | |
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Order: | Coelacanthiformes
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| Genus: | Caridosuctor
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| Species: | C. populosum
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| Caridosuctor populosum Lund & Lund, 1984
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Caridosuctor populosum is an extinct species of coelacanth that lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). Fossils have been found in the Bear Gulch lagerstätte in Montana.
References[]
- ^ Rhabdodermatidae - Paleobiology Database
- ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
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