Spermatodus

Spermatodus
Temporal range: Artinskian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: †Rhabdodermatidae
Genus: †Spermatodus
Cope, 1894
Species:
†S. pustulosus
Binomial name
†Spermatodus pustulosus
Cope, 1894

Spermatodus is an extinct genus of coelacanths, which lived during the Artinskian age of the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch in what is now Oklahoma and Texas, United States.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ a b 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. S2CID 5332637.
  2. ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.


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