| Coelacanthus Temporal range:
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| Coelacanthus granulatus fossil | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Coelacanthidae |
| Genus: | †Coelacanthus Agassiz, 1839 |
| Species: | †C. granulatus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Coelacanthus granulatus Agassiz, 1839
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Coelacanthus ("hollow spine") is a genus of extinct marine coelacanths known from the late Permian period. It was the first genus of coelacanths described, about a century before the discovery of the extant coelacanth Latimeria.[1] The order Coelacanthiformes is named after it.
- ^ Agassiz, L. 1839. Recherches sur les poissons fossiles II. Petitpierre, Neuchâtel.