''Rhabdoderma'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
coelacanth
The coelacanths ( ) are fish belonging to the order Actinistia that includes two extant species in the genus '' Latimeria'': the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (''Latimeria chalumnae''), primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east c ...
fish
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in the class
Sarcopterygii
Sarcopterygii (; ) — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii () — is a taxon (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fishes known as the lobe-finned fishes. The group Tetrapoda, a mostly terrestrial superclass includ ...
. It lived in the
Carboniferous and
Early Triassic
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, and its fossils have been found in
Europe
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,
Madagascar
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and
North America.
Species
* ''Rhabdoderma alderingi''
Moy-Thomas, 1937
* ''Rhabdoderma ardrossense''
Moy-Thomas, 1937
* ''Rhabdoderma elegans''
(Newberry 1856)
* ''Rhabdoderma exiguum''
(Eastman, 1902)
* ''Rhabdoderma huxleyi''
(Traquair, 1881)
* ''Rhabdoderma madagascariensis''
(Woodward, 1910)
* ''Rhabdoderma? newelli''
(Hibbard, 1933)
* ''Rhabdoderma tinglyense''
fossilworks.org
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Bibliography
*''Discovering Fossil Fishes'' by John Maisey and John G. Maisey
References
Rhabdodermatidae
Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera
Carboniferous fish of Europe
Carboniferous fish of North America
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