Macropomoides
| Macropomoides Temporal range: Cretaceous-Miocene
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| Macropomoides orientalis from Lebanon | |
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| Genus: | †Macropomoides Woodward, 1942
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| Species: | †M. orientalis
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| Macropomoides orientalis Woodward, 1942
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Macropomoides is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish which lived during the Cretaceous period and endured as recently as the Miocene.[1]
References
- ^ Khalaf-Sakerfalke von Jaffa, Prof. Dr. Sc. Norman Ali Bassam Ali Taher (2013). † Macropomoides palaestina Khalaf, 2013 : A New Coelacanth Fish Fossil Species from the Anthracothere Hill in Al-Naqab, Palestine. Gazelle: The Palestinian Biological Bulletin. ISSN 0178 – 6288. Number 107, November 2013, Muharram 1435 AH. pp. 30-38. Dubai and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. http://quastenflosser.webs.com/macropomoidespalaestina.htm [as Macropomoides palaestina]
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