Allenypterus Temporal range: | |
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Fossil specimen of A. montanus, Field Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
Class: | Actinistia |
Family: | Hadronectoridae |
Genus: | †Allenypterus Melton, 1969 |
Species: | †A. montanus |
Binomial name | |
†Allenypterus montanus Melton, 1969 | |
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Restoration

Allenypterus montanus fossil in Museum of the Rockies
Allenypterus is an extinct genus of a prehistoric lobe-finned fish 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]
References
- ↑ Lund, Richard; Lund, Wendy (1984). "New genera and species of coelacanths from the Bear Gulch Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of Montana (U.S.A.)". Geobios. 17 (2): 237–244. Bibcode:1984Geobi..17..237L. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(84)80145-X.
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