Jump to content

Rhabdoderma

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 70.175.133.222 (talk) at 00:45, 12 January 2020 (Added authorship). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Rhabdoderma
Temporal range: Carboniferous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Subclass:
Family:
Genus:
Rhabdoderma

Rhabdoderma is an extinct genus of coelacanth fish in the class Sarcopterygii. It lived in the Carboniferous, and its fossils have been found in Europe and North America.

Species

  • Rhabdoderma alderingi Moy-Thomas, 1937
  • Rhabdoderma ardrossense Moy-Thomas, 1937
  • Rhabdoderma elegans (Newberry 1856)[2]
  • Rhabdoderma exiguum (Eastman, 1902)
  • Rhabdoderma huxleyi (Traquair, 1881)
  • Rhabdoderma madagascariensis (Woodward, 1910)
  • Rhabdoderma? newelli (Hibbard, 1933)
  • Rhabdoderma tinglyense[3]

Bibliography

  • Discovering Fossil Fishes by John Maisey and John G. Maisey

References

  1. ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
  2. ^ History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Peter Forey at Google Books
  3. ^ fossilworks.org