Biology:Spermatodus

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Short description: Extinct genus of coelacanths


Spermatodus
Temporal range: Artinskian[1]
Scientific classification
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Animalia
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Spermatodus

Cope, 1894
Binomial name
Spermatodus pustulosus
Cope, 1894

Spermatodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish, which lived during the Artinskian age of the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch in what is now Oklahoma and Texas , United States.[1]

See also

  • Sarcopterygii
  • List of sarcopterygians
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. 
  2. "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. http://users.atw.hu/fishindex/sarcopterygii/coelacanthiformes/coelacanthiformes.htm. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7576388 entry