Caridosuctor
Extinct genus of coelacanths
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Caridosuctor is an extinct genus of marine coelacanth that lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). It contains a single species, C. populusum, with fossils known from the Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana.[1][2][3][4]
| Caridosuctor Temporal range: | |
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| Caridosuctor populosum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Rhabdodermatidae |
| Genus: | †Caridosuctor Lund & Lund, 1984 |
| Species: | †C. populosum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Caridosuctor populosum Lund & Lund, 1984 | |
