Spermatodus is an extinct genus of coelacanths, which lived during the Artinskian age of the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch in what is now Oklahoma and Texas, United States.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Rhabdodermatidae |
| Genus: | †Spermatodus Cope, 1894 |
| Species: | †S. pustulosus
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| †Spermatodus pustulosus Cope, 1894
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See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
- ^ "Coelacanthiformes". ATW.hu. Retrieved 20 Nov 2012.
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