Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae
Synonym: Urocomus Costa 1862
Full reference: P. M. G. Egerton. 1861. Holophagus gulo description, in Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangment of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Decade X 23:19
Parent taxon: Latimeriinae according to C. Ferrante and L. Cavin 2023
See also Bassani 1895, Dutel et al. 2012, Forey 1998, Gardiner 1960, Graf 2012, Rieppel 1985, Schultze 2004, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Latimeria, Libys, Macropoma, Megalocoelacanthus, Swenzia, Undina
Subtaxa: Holophagus gulo Holophagus picenus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (1 collection)
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic of Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
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