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Coelacanths are a group of fish related to lungfish and tetrapods, with a fossil record dating back 410 million years. They were thought to be extinct until 1938, when one was caught off the coast of South Africa, and are now known to have two living species in the genus Latimeria.
Mawsonia is an extinct genus of giant coelacanth fish that lived in freshwater and brackish environments from the late Jurassic to the mid-Cretaceous. The type species is Mawsonia gigas, which may have reached 5.3 metres in length, and several other species have been described or disputed.
Latimeria is a rare genus of fish that includes two living species of coelacanth, a primitive group of lobe-finned fish. The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (L. chalumnae) is a critically endangered species that lives in deep reef and volcanic slope habitats and gives birth to live young.
The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. Females don’t hit sexual maturity until their late 50s, the study said ...
Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years.
Mr Ryan said: "These fossils in the paving slab are the remains of ancient fish dating to around 385 million years ago - around 140 million years before the first dinosaur.
Learn about the origin and diversity of fish, from jawless to jawed, from armoured to ray-finned, from ancient to modern. Explore the fossil record, the extinction events, and the evolutionary relationships of fish and other vertebrates.
Learn about the earliest known fish that lived from the Cambrian to the Quaternary, including some living fossils. Find links to lists of various prehistoric fish groups, such as jawless, placoderms, acanthodians, cartilaginous and bony fish.