Coelacanthiformes Huxley, 1861

Wen, Wen, Zhang, Qi-Yue, Hu, Shi-Xue, Benton, Michael J., Zhou, Chang-Yong, Tao, Xie, Huang, Jin-Yuan & Chen, Zhong-Qiang, 2013, Coelacanths from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota, Yunnan, South China, with the earliest evidence of ovoviviparity, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (1), pp. 175-193 : 176

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scientific name	Coelacanthiformes Huxley, 1861
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Order Coelacanthiformes Huxley, 1861 View in CoL View at ENA Genus Luopingcoelacanthus nov.

Type species: Luopingocoelacanthus eurylacrimalis sp. nov.; see below.

Etymology: The genus named after Luoping County.

Diagnosis.—As for the type species, by monotypy.

Huxley, T. H. 1861. Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangement of the fishes of the Devonian epoch. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Figures and Description of British Organic Remains 10: 1 - 40.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Coelacanthi
Order	Coelacanthiformes

Specimens