Allenypterus
Temporal range: Bashkirian
Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Family: Hadronectoridae
Genus: †Allenypterus
Melton, 1969
Species:
†A. montanus
Binomial name
†Allenypterus montanus
Melton, 1969
Restoration
Allenypterus montanus fossil in Museum of the Rockies

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]

References

  1. ^ Lund, Richard; Lund, Wendy (1984). "New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.)". Geobios. 17 (2): 237–244. Bibcode:1984Geobi..17..237L. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(84)80145-X.

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