†Caridosuctor populosum Lund and Lund 1984 (coelacanth)
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Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Rhabdodermatidae
Full reference: R. Lund and W. Lund. 1984. New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.). Geobios 17:237-244
Belongs to Caridosuctor according to R. Lund and W. Lund 1984
See also Forey 1998 and Lund and Lund 1985
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MV 6021, a skeleton. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Montana collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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