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Macropomoides
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Macropomoides orientalis from Lebanon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sarcopterygii
Subclass:
Actinistia
Order:
Coelacanthiformes
Family:
Latimeriidae
Genus:
†Macropomoides

Woodward, 1942
Species:
†M. orientalis
Binomial name
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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