Polyosteorhynchus 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

Parent taxon: Actinistia according to P. L. Forey 1998

See also Lund and Lund 1984, Lund and Lund 1985 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Coelacanthiformes

Subtaxa: Polyosteorhynchus simplex

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Ecology:

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

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