Coelacanthopsis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Genus: | †Coelacanthopsis Traquair, 1901 |
Species: | †C. curta
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Binomial name | |
†Coelacanthopsis curta Traquair, 1901
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Coelacanthopsis is an extinct genus of marine coelacanth which lived during the early Carboniferous (Mississippian). It is known from one species, C. curta from the Viséan of Ardross, Scotland.[1][2][3]
Some place it in the family Rhabdodermatidae.[4] However, its taxonomic identity is generally considered uncertain.[5]