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Coelacanthus madagascariensis
Taxonomy
Coelacanthus madagascariensis was named by Woodward (1910). Its type specimen is BMNH P10788, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Mahavavy river, Andogozo (BMNH collection), which is in a Dienerian marine shale in Madagascar.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1910 | Coelacanthus madagascariensis Woodward |
| 1935 | Coelacanthus madagascariensis Moy-Thomas p. 223 figs. text-figs 9, 11 |
| 1999 | Coelacanthus madagascariensis Clement p. 239 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Coelacanthus madagascariensis Woodward 1910
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Lombardo and Tintori 2005, Carroll 1988, Kiessling 2004 | |||||