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Hadronector

Hadronector is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine coelacanth which lived during the mid-Carboniferous of North America. It contains a single species, H. donbairdi, known from well-preserved remains recovered from the Serpukhovian -aged Bear Gulch Limestone lagerstätte of Montana, US. It is the type genus of the family Hadronectoridae, which contains only one other known genus, the co-occurring Polyosteorhynchus.

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Hadronector
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinistia
Family: Hadronectoridae
Genus: †Hadronector
Lund & Lund, 1984
Species:
†H. donbairdi
Binomial name
†Hadronector donbairdi
Lund & Lund, 1984

Hadronector is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine coelacanth which lived during the mid-Carboniferous of North America. It contains a single species, H. donbairdi, known from well-preserved remains recovered from the Serpukhovian (about 324 million years ago)-aged Bear Gulch Limestone lagerstätte of Montana, US.12 It is the type genus of the family Hadronectoridae, which contains only one other known genus, the co-occurring Polyosteorhynchus.345

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  3. Lund, Richard; Lund, Wendy (1984-01-01). "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. ISSN 0016-6995.
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  5. Cloutier, Richard (1991-09-01). "Patterns, trends, and rates of evolution within the Actinistia". Environmental Biology of Fishes. 32 (1): 23–58. Bibcode:1991EnvBF..32...23C. doi:10.1007/BF00007444. ISSN 1573-5133.