Caridosuctor

Taxobox
name = "Caridosuctor"
fossil_range = Carboniferous
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sarcopterygii
subclassis = Coelacanthimorpha
ordo = Coelacanthiformes
familia = Rhabdodermatidae
genus = "Caridosuctor"
species = "C. populosum"
binomial = "Caridosuctor populosum"
binomial_authority = Lund & Lund, 1984

"Caridosuctor" is a genus of prehistoric coelacanth, lobe-finned fish, which lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). Fossils have been found in North America.

External links

* [http://www.sju.edu/research/bear_gulch/pages_fish_species/Caridosuctor_populosum.php Fossil fishes of Bear Gulch: "Caridosuctor populosum"]