Allenypterus Temporal range:
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Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Family: | Hadronectoridae |
Genus: | †Allenypterus Melton, 1969 |
Species: | †A. montanus
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Binomial name | |
†Allenypterus montanus Melton, 1969
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Allenypterus is an extinct genus of a prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Bashkirian age of the Late Carboniferous period, 318 million years ago). Fossils have been discovered in Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana, USA.[1]