Mylacanthus

Mylacanthus; Temporal range: early Olenekian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Mylacanthus (10) and other Triassic marine predators
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Family:	†Coelacanthidae
Genus:	†Mylacanthus; Stensiö, 1921
Type species
	†Mylacanthus lobatus; Stensiö, 1921
Other species
	†Mylacanthus spinosus Stensiö, 1921

Mylacanthus is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth lobe-finned fish that lived during the Smithian (early Olenekian) age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Svalbard.^[3]^[4]^[1]

Two species are known, the type species Mylacanthus lobatus and a second species, M. spinosus. The fossils of both of these species were collected from the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation. Mylacanthus had an estimated body length of 60 cm (24 in) to 80 cm (31 in).^[1]^[5]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c 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.
^ Scheyer, Torsten M.; Romano, Carlo; Jenks, Jim; Bucher, Hugo (2014). "Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective". PLoS ONE. 9 (3): e88987. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088987. PMC 3960099.
^ "Fossilworks: Mylacanthus". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ Forey, Peter (1997-11-30). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9780412784804.
^ Stensiö, Erik (1921). Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen. Vienna: Adolf Holzhausen. pp. xxviii + 307. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.159141. S2CID 83338211.