Rieppelia Temporal range: Ladinian,
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Holotype specimen and skeletal reconstruction | |
Life restoration | |
Scientific 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)
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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]