Heptanema

Heptanema Temporal range: Ladinian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil of Heptanema paradoxum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Sarcopterygii
Genus:	†Heptanema Rüppell in Bellotti, 1857
Type species
†Heptanema paradoxa Rüppell in Bellotti, 1857

Heptanema is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of northern Italy and southern Switzerland (Monte San Giorgio).^[1][2]

The type and only species is Heptanema paradoxa. Woodward (1891) suggested that Coelacanthus minor could be a species of Heptanema.^[3][4][5]