Allenypterus
Extinct genus of coelacanths
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Allenypterus is an extinct genus of coelacanths 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]
Restoration
Allenypterus montanus. Heath Formation, Bear Gulch, Montana (USA). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
Allenypterus montanus, Museum of the Rockies
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| Allenypterus Temporal range: | |
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_(Bear_Gulch_Limestone,_Upper_Mississippian;_Potter_Creek_Dome,_Montana,_USA)_(15149629150).jpg) | |
| Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Family: | Hadronectoridae |
| Genus: | †Allenypterus Melton, 1969 |
| Species: | †A. montanus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Allenypterus montanus Melton, 1969 | |
