| Holophagus Temporal range:
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| Holophagus gulo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | Latimeriidae |
| Genus: | †Holophagus Egerton, 1861 |
| Type species | |
| Holophagus gulo Egerton, 1861
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Holophagus is an extinct genus of coelacanth belonging to Latimeriidae.[1] The type species, Holophagus gulo, is known from the Lower Jurassic marine Lias of England.[2] Some authors have considered the genus restricted to the Lias of England.[3]
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- ^ Egerton, Philip de M. Grey (December 1868). "On some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (12): 459. doi:10.1080/00222936808695864. ISSN 0374-5481.
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