Coelacanthopsis

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Phylum:Chordata
Genus:Coelacanthopsis
Traquair, 1901
Species:
C. curta
Coelacanthopsis
Temporal range: Viséan
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinistia
Genus: Coelacanthopsis
Traquair, 1901
Species:
C. curta
Binomial name
Coelacanthopsis curta
Traquair, 1901

Coelacanthopsis is an extinct genus of marine coelacanth which lived during the early Carboniferous (Mississippian). It is known from one species, C. curta from the Viséan of Ardross, Scotland.[1][2][3]

Some place it in the family Rhabdodermatidae.[4] However, its taxonomic identity is generally considered uncertain.[5]

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