Alcoveria
Extinct genus of coelacanths From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcoveria is an extinct genus of mawsoniid coelacanth fish which lived during the Triassic period. Alcoveria is known from a well preserved specimen from Spain. It lived in a marine environment.[1]
| Alcoveria Temporal range: Triassic | |
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| A fossil of Alcoveria brevis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Alcoveria Beltan, 1972 |
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