Lualabaea

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Lualabaea
Temporal range: Late Jurassic–Berriasian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Order:
Coelacanthiformes
Family:
Genus:
Lualabaea

Saint-Seine 1955
Type species
Lulabaea lerichei
Saint-Seine, 1955

Lualabaea is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth, belonging to the family Mawsoniidae, containing the single species L. lerichei. It has been found in Late Jurassic or Berriasian aged deposits in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

See also[]

  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References[]

  1. ^ "A new mawsoniid coelacanth (Actinistia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Southern France". Cretaceous Research. 62: 65–73. 2016-07-01. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.02.002. ISSN 0195-6671.


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