Caridosuctor
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Caridosuctor populosum
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Caridosuctor
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C. populosum
Binomial name
Caridosuctor populosum
Lund & Lund, 1984

Caridosuctor populosum is an extinct species of coelacanth that lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). Fossils have been found in the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana.

References

  1. Rhabdodermatidae - Paleobiology Database
  2. "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.


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