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Diplocercides

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Diplocercidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Sarcopterygii

Phylum
  
Chordata

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Similar
  
Miguashaia, Hadronector, Allenypterus, Caridosuctor, Coccoderma

Diplocercides is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish belonging to the coelacanth group (Actinistia or Coelacanthimorpha) which lived during the Late Devonian period (between 370 and 397 million years BCE). Fossils of Diplocercides have been found in Germany, Iran, Ireland, Australia and Poland (and possibly in South Africa in 1937).Recently three-dimensional fossils of Diplocercides were uncovered from the Gogo Formation of Western Australia

Species of Diplocercides

  • Diplocercides davisi Moy-Thomas, 1937
  • Diplocercides heiligenstockiensis Jessen, 1966
  • Diplocercides kayseri von Koenen, 1895
  • Diplocercides jaekeli Stensio, 1922
  • References

    Diplocercides Wikipedia