Koharalepis Jarviki
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''Koharalepis'' is an extinct genus of canowindrid
tetrapodomorph Tetrapodomorpha (also known as Choanata) is a clade of vertebrates consisting of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) and their closest sarcopterygian relatives that are more closely related to living tetrapods than to living lungfish. Advanced for ...
s which lived in what is now
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
during the
Middle Devonian In the geological timescale, the Middle Devonian epoch (from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 382.7 ± 1.6 million years ago) occurred during the Devonian period, after the end of the Emsian age. The Middle Devonian epoch is subdivided into two ...
. It contains one species, ''K. jarviki''.G.C. Young, J.A. Long, and A. Ritchie. 1992. "Crossopterygian fishes from the Devonian of Antarctica: systematics, relationships and biogeographic significance". ''Records of the Australian Museum'', Supplement 14: 1-77


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Tetrapodomorpha Middle Devonian sarcopterygians Devonian sarcopterygians of Antarctica Fossil taxa described in 1992 {{paleo-tetrapodomorph-stub