Family Latimeriidae Berg 1940 (coelacanth)

Osteichthyes - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae

Synonyms: Macropomidae Owen 1860, Undinidae Whitley 1940

Parent taxon: Latimerioidei according to R. van der Laan 2019

See also Betancur et al. 2013, Clement 2005, Clement 2006, Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Graf 2012, Nelson et al. 2016 and Schultze 2004

Sister taxa: Dipluridae, Mawsoniidae, Palaeoctopus pelagicus

Subtaxa: Indocoelacanthus Latimeriinae Macropomoides Ticinepomiinae

view classification

Type: Latimeria

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (1 collection), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (5: Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, New Jersey)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (3), India (3), Switzerland (1), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (6)

• Triassic of Italy (3), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (24)

Total: 55 collections including 57 occurrences

Show more details