Serenichthys kowiensis Gess and Coates 2015 (lobe-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Actinistia

Full reference: R. W. Gess and M. I. Coates. 2015. Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2):360-383

Belongs to Serenichthys according to R. W. Gess and M. I. Coates 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM 5754 (a & b), a skeleton (slightly disrupted whole-bodied specimen preserved in part and counterpart). Its type locality is Waterloo Farm, which is in a Famennian lagoonal shale/sandstone in the Witpoort Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Waterloo Farm

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