Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes

Alternative spelling: Lochmocereus

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

Parent taxon: Coelocanthiformes according to J. J., Jr. Sepkoski 2002

See also Forey 1998, Lund and Lund 1984 and Lund and Lund 1985

Sister taxa: Canningius, Coelacanthidae, Coelacanthiidae, Coelacanthoidei, Coelacanthopsis, Cualabaea, Diplocercidae, Dobrogeria, Hadronectoridae, Holoptychus, Latimeriidae, Latimeroidei, Luopingcoelacanthus, Miguashaiidae, Rhabdodermatidae, Sinocoelacanthus, Whiteiidae, Yunnancoelacanthus

Subtaxa: Lochmocercus aciculodontus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection) (Carboniferous of Montana)

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