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Megalocoelacanthus

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Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassCoelacanthi
  4. OrderCoelacanthiformes
  5. FamilyCoelacanthidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
Family
Coelacanthidae
Collections
KU, AMNH
Recorded in
United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Latimeriidae
Image
Megalocoelacanthus dobiei.png
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taxon name
Megalocoelacanthus
Commons category
Megalocoelacanthus
taxon rank
genus
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Megalocoelacanthus dobiei is an extinct species of giant latimeriid coelacanth lobe-finned fish which lived during the Lower Campanian epoch until possibly the early Maastrichtian in the Late Cretaceous period in Appalachia, the Western Interior Seaway and Mississippi Embayment. Its disarticulated remains have been recovered from the Eutaw Formation, Mooreville Chalk Formation, and Blufftown Formation of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia, and also from the Niobrara Formation of Kansas. Although no complete skeleton is known, careful examination of skeletal elements demonstrate it is closely related to the Jurassic-aged coelacanthid Libys. The species is named for herpetologist James L. Dobie. It has been estimated to have been in length.

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