Macropomoides
Macropomoides Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Macropomoides orientalis from Lebanon | |
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Order: | Coelacanthiformes
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Family: | Latimeriidae
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Genus: | †Macropomoides Woodward, 1942
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Species: | †M. orientalis
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Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942
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Macropomoides is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish which lived during the Cretaceous period.[1]
References[]
- ^ History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Peter Forey.
Categories:
- Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
- Latimeriidae
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Fossil taxa described in 1942
- Cretaceous genus first appearances
- Cretaceous genus extinctions
- Prehistoric lobe-finned fish stubs
- Cretaceous fish stubs