Rieppelia

Rieppelia
Temporal range: Ladinian, 242.1 Ma
Holotype specimen and skeletal reconstruction
Life restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: Latimeriidae
Genus: Rieppelia
Ferrante and Cavin, 2023[1]
Type species
Rieppelia heinzfurreri
(Ferrante and Cavin, 2023)

Rieppelia is an extinct genus of latimeriid coelacanth fish from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, in what is now Monte San Giorgio. It contains a single species, R. heinzfurreri.[1]

  1. ^ a b Ferrante, C.; Cavin, L. (2023). "Early Mesozoic burst of morphological disparity in the slow-evolving coelacanth fish lineage". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 11356. Bibcode:2023NatSR..1311356F. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-37849-9. PMC 10345187. PMID 37443368.