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Holophagus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
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Holophagus

Egerton, 1861

Holophagus is an extinct genus of coelacanth belonging to Latimeriidae.[1] The type species, Holophagus gulo, is known from the Lower Jurassic marine Lias of England.[2] A similar form, referred to as cf. Holophagus, has been reported from the Early Cretaceous Las Hoyas site of Spain.[3]

References

  1. ^ Toriño, Pablo; Soto, Matías; Perea, Daniel (2021-12-02). "A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of coelacanth fishes (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) with comments on the composition of the Mawsoniidae and Latimeriidae: evaluating old and new methodological challenges and constraints". Historical Biology. 33 (12): 3423–3443. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1867982. ISSN 0891-2963.
  2. ^ Egerton, Philip de M. Grey (December 1868). "On some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 2 (12): 459–459. doi:10.1080/00222936808695864. ISSN 0374-5481.
  3. ^ Martín-Abad, Hugo; Fregenal- Martínez, Marian (2021-12-02). "The ecology of the Lower Cretaceous coelacanths from Las Hoyas Konservat- Lagerstätte (Cuenca, Spain): A new insight after the integration of palaeontological and sedimentological data". Spanish Journal of Palaeontology. 36 (2). doi:10.7203/sjp.36.2.21966. ISSN 2660-9568.