Polyosteorhynchus simplex Lund and Lund 1984 (lobe-finned fish)

Coelacanthimorpha

Full reference: R. Lund and W. Lund. 1984. New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.). Geobios 17:237-244

Belongs to Polyosteorhynchus according to P. L. Forey 1998

See also Lund and Lund 1984 and Lund and Lund 1985

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MV 6043, a skeleton. Its type locality is Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection), which is in an Arnsbergian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Heath Formation of Montana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bear Gulch (Carnegie Museum Collection)

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