Heptanema

Heptanema is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of northern Italy and Switzerland.[1][2][3]

Heptanema
Fossil of Heptanema paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sarcopterygii
Genus:
Heptanema

The type and only species is Heptanema paradoxum. Woodward (1891) suggested that Coelacanthus minor could be a species of Heptanema.[4][5][6]

See also

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Heptanema". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. RENESTO, SILVIO; STOCKAR, RUDOLF (2018). "PlumX". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (3). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10771. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
  3. Renesto, Silvio; Stockar, Rudolf (2018). "FIRST RECORD OF A COELACANTH FISH FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC MERIDE LIMESTONE OF MONTE SAN GIORGIO (CANTON TICINO, SWITZERLAND)" (PDF). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (3). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10771. ISSN 2039-4942.
  4. Bellotti C. (1857) - Descrizione di alcune nuove specie di pesci fossili di Perledo e di altre località Lombarde. In: Stoppani A. (Ed.). Studii Geologici e Paleontologici sulla Lombardia: 419-438. Carlo Turati Tipografo Editore Milano.
  5. Woodward A. S. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. London.
  6. Forey P. L. (1998) - History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Chapman and Hall, London, 419 pp.


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