the giant cretaceous coelacanth (actinistia, sarcopterygii) megalocoelacanthus dobiei schwimmer, stewart williams, 1994, and its bearing on latimerioidei interrelationships英文论文.pdfVIP

The Giant Cretaceous Coelacanth (Actinistia, Sarcopterygii) Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer, Stewart Williams, 1994, and Its Bearing on Latimerioidei Interrelationships 1,2 3 4 1 2 ¨ ´ 3 Hugo Dutel *, John G. Maisey , David R. Schwimmer , Philippe Janvier , Marc Herbin , Gael Clement ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ 1 UMR 7207 CNRS-MNHN, Centre de Recherches sur la Paleobiodiversite et les Paleoenvironnements (CR2P), Departement Histoire de la Terre, Museum national d’Histoire ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ naturelle, Paris, France, 2 UMR 7179 CNRS-MNHN, Mecanismes adaptatifs: des Organismes aux Communautes, Departement Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversite, ´ Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, 3 Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, City of New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, United States of America Abstract We present a redescription of Megalocoelacanthus dobiei, a giant fossil coelacanth from Upper Cretaceous strata of North America. Megalocoelacanthus has been previously described on the basis of composite material that consisted of isolated elements. Consequently, many aspects of its anatomy have remained unknown as well as its phylogenetic relationships with other coelacanths. Pre