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Graulia Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
Genus: | †Graulia Manuelli et al., 2024 |
Species: | †G. branchiodonta
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Binomial name | |
†Graulia branchiodonta Manuelli et al., 2024
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Graulia is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of eastern France. It contains a single species, G. branchiodonta, and is represented by some of the most well preserved fossils of any Mesozoic coelacanth. Discovered in the Muschelkalk, two specimens are known, both of which are 16 cm long juveniles.[1]