†Chinlea sorenseni Schaeffer 1967 (coelacanth)
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Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Mawsoniidae
Full reference: B. Schaeffer. 1967. Late Triassic fishes from the western United States. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135(6):285-342
Belongs to Chinlea according to B. Schaeffer 1967
See also Forey 1998, Murry 1986 and Schultze 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 5652, a skeleton. Its type locality is Little Valley fish locality, which is in a Norian/Rhaetian channel siltstone in the Chinle Formation of Utah.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (7: Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah collections)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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