Garnbergia
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| Garnbergia Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen at Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Whiteiidae |
| Genus: | †Garnbergia Martin & Wenz, 1984 |
| Species: | †G. ommata |
| Binomial name | |
| †Garnbergia ommata Martin & Wenz, 1984 | |
Garnbergia is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine coelacanth that lived during the Triassic period.[1] It was discovered by Martin and Wenz in 1984. It comprises a single species, Garnbergia ommata, known from the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic-aged Muschelkalk of Germany.[2] In addition, an isolated scale, tentatively assigned to G. ommata, is known from the middle Norian-aged Pardonet Formation of British Columbia, Canada.[3]