Metaceratodus
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| Metaceratodus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Dipnoi |
| Order: | Ceratodontiformes |
| Family: | †Ceratodontidae |
| Genus: | †Metaceratodus Chapman, 1914 |
| Species | |
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Metaceratodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish in the family Ceratodontidae, with an indeterminate specimen known from the Late Triassic (Norian)-aged Lissauer Breccia of Poland[1] and more complete specimens known from the Late Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia and Argentina (Malargue Group).[2][3][4] The genus was named and described by Frederick Chapman in 1914.[5][6]
Species
[edit | edit source]The seven identified species of Metaceratodus are listed below, while an eighth unnamed species is known from Poland:[7]
- cf. Metaceratodus sp.
- Metaceratodus baibianorum
- Metaceratodus bonei
- Metaceratodus ellioti
- Metaceratodus kaopen (=Ptychoceratodus kaopen, P. cionei)
- Metaceratodus palmeri
- Metaceratodus wichmanni (=Ceratodus wichmanni)
- Metaceratodus wollastoni
See also
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References
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- ^ Gonzalez Riga, B. J. (1999). Hallazgo de vertebrados fósiles en la Formación Loncoche, Cretácico Superior de la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Ameghiniana 36:401-410
- ^ Chapman, F. (1914). Australasian Fossils. A Students' Manual of Palaeontology 1-341
- ^ Chapman, F. (1914) Australian Fossils. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and London. Project Gutenberg eBook 59074
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