Rhabdoderma Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
Family: | †Rhabdodermatidae |
Genus: | †Rhabdoderma Reis, 1888 |
Type species | |
elegans | |
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Rhabdoderma is an extinct genus of coelacanth fish in the class Sarcopterygii. It lived in the Carboniferous and Early Triassic (Induan), and its fossils have been found in Europe, Madagascar and North America.[1][3] The type species was originally described as Coelacanthus elegans.