Macropomoides

Macropomoides
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Macropomoides orientalis from Lebanon
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: Latimeriidae
Genus: †Macropomoides
Woodward, 1942
Type species
†Macropomoides orientalis
Woodward, 1942

Macropomoides is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish which lived during the Cretaceous period.[1]

References

  1. ^ History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Peter Forey.


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