Alcoveria
Extinct genus of coelacanths
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Alcoveria is an extinct genus of mawsoniid coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period. Alcoveria is known from a well preserved specimen from Spain. It lived in a marine environment[1]
| Alcoveria Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| A fossil of Alcoveria brevis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Suborder: | Latimerioidei |
| Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Alcoveria Beltan, 1972 |
