Piveteauia
Extinct genus of coelacanths
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Piveteauia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish which lived during the Lower Triassic period.[1] The type specimen was discovered in the Middle Sakamena Group in northwestern Madagascar by French paleoichthyologist Jean-Pierre Lehman.[1] The genus is named after Jean Piveteau.
| Piveteauia Temporal range: | |
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| Piveteauia madagascariensis fossil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Whiteiidae |
| Genus: | †Piveteauia Lehman, 1952[1] |
| Type species | |
| †Piveteauia madagascariensis Lehman, 1952 | |
