| Polyosteorhynchus Temporal range: Carboniferous
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Family: | Hadronectoridae |
| Genus: | †Polyosteorhynchus Lund & Lund, 1984 |
| Type species | |
| Polyosteorhynchus simplex Lund & Lund, 1984
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Polyosteorhynchus is an extinct genus of coelacanths which lived during the Carboniferous period (Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). It's remains have been found in the Bear Gulch Limestone. The size of Polyosteorhynchus was about 3,5 – 19 cm long.1
External links
External links
- 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. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(84)80145-x. ISSN 0016-6995.