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Caridosuctor

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Caridosuctor
Temporal range: Mississippian
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

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  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.
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