Biology:Allenypterus
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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes
| Allenypterus | |
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| Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Family: | Hadronectoridae |
| Genus: | †Allenypterus Melton, 1969 |
| Species: | †A. montanus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Allenypterus montanus Melton, 1969
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Allenypterus montanus fossil in Museum of the Rockies
Allenypterus is an extinct genus of a prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Bashkirian age of the Late Carboniferous period, 318 million years ago). Fossils have been discovered in Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana, United States of America .[1]
References
- ↑ Lund, Richard; Lund, Wendy (1984). "New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.)". Geobios 17 (2): 237–244. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(84)80145-X. Bibcode: 1984Geobi..17..237L.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3612511 entry
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