Allenypterus

Allenypterus is an extinct genus of coelacanths which lived during the Bashkirian age of the Late Carboniferous period, 318 million years ago). Fossils have been discovered in Bear Gulch Limestone, Montana, USA.^[1]

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  Restoration
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  Allenypterus montanus. Heath Formation, Bear Gulch, Montana (USA). At the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
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  Allenypterus montanus, Museum of the Rockies

Allenypterus Temporal range: Bashkirian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinistia
Family:	Hadronectoridae
Genus:	†Allenypterus Melton, 1969
Species:	†A. montanus
Binomial name
†Allenypterus montanus Melton, 1969