Heptanema

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

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

Rüppell in Bellotti, 1857
Binomial name
†Heptanema paradoxa
Rüppell in Bellotti, 1857

The type and only species is Heptanema paradoxa. Woodward (1891) suggested that Coelacanthus minor could be a species of Heptanema.[3][4][5]

See also

References
  1. "Fossilworks: Heptanema". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. Renesto, Silvio; Stockar, Rudolf (2018). "First record of a coelacanth fish from the Middle Triassic Meride limestone of Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland)". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 124 (3). doi:10.13130/2039-4942/10771. ISSN 2039-4942.
  3. 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 (in Italian). Milano: Carlo Turati Tipografo Editore. pp. 419–438.
  4. Woodward, A. S. (1891). "Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II". London. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61854. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help).
  5. Forey, P. L. (1998). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. London: Chapman and Hall. p. 419. ISBN 978-0-412-78480-4.


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