Rhabdoderma

Rhabdoderma
Temporal range:
R. elegans fossil, American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinistia
Order: Coelacanthiformes
Family: †Rhabdodermatidae
Genus: †Rhabdoderma
Reis, 1888
Type species
Coelacanthus elegans
(Newberry, 1856)
Other species
  • †R. alderingi Moy-Thomas, 1937
  • †R. ardrossense Moy-Thomas, 1937
  • †R. exiguum? (Eastman, 1902)
  • †R. huxleyi (Traquair, 1881)
  • †R. madagascariensis (Woodward, 1910)
  • †R. newelli? (Hibbard, 1933)
  • †R. tinglyense Davis, 1884
Synonyms
  • †Dumfregia

Rhabdoderma is an extinct genus of coelacanth fish in the class Sarcopterygii. Fossils of Rhabdoderma have been found in Europe, Madagascar and North America, in Carboniferous and Early Triassic (Induan) aged rocks, with a hiatus in between. The type species was originally described as Coelacanthus elegans. Five species are considered valid in 1981.

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