Chagrinia
Extinct genus of fishes
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Chagrinia is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine coelacanth which lived during the Late Devonian period.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Genus: | †Chagrinia Schaeffer, 1962 |
| Species: | †C. enodis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Chagrinia enodis Schaeffer, 1962 | |
The holotype, Chagrinia enodis, was found eroded out of the Chagrin Shale in the Euclid Creek Reservation in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1960 by a local citizen.[1][2]
The fossil material is poorly preserved, but the species appears to exhibit a slender body, narrow caudal peduncle, symmetrical tail, and fin rays that outnumber the endochondral supports. The scales appeared to be unornamented, but that may be a preservational artefact.[3]
Some studies have placed it with the Diplocercidae,[4] while others have found it to be more basal.[5]
