Mawsonia Woodward

Mawsonia Woodward

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coelacanthiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Ordo: Coelacanthiformes

Familia: †Mawsoniidae
Genus: †Mawsonia
Species: †M. gigas – †M. lavocati – †M. libyca – †M. minor – †M. tegarnensis – †M. ubangiensis

Name

• †Mawsonia Woodward in Mawson & Woodward, 1907

References

• Mawson, J.; Woodward, A.S. 1907. On the cretaceous formation of Bahia (Brazil) and on vertebrate fossils collected therein. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 63: 128–139.
• Carvalho, M.S.S.; Maisey, J.G. 2008. New occurrence of Mawsonia (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from the Early Cretaceous of the Sanfranciscana Basin, Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. In: L. CAVIN, A. LONGBOTTOM & M. RICHTER (Eds.): Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society, Special Publications 295: 109–144.
• Soto, M. et al. 2012: Coelacanth remains from the Late Jurassic–?earliest Cretaceous of Uruguay: the southernmost occurrence of the Mawsoniidae. Journal of vertebrate paleontology, 32(3): 530–537. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.660899