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Bukkanodus

Bukkanodus
Temporal range: Early Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sarcopterygii
Order: Onychodontiformes
Genus: Bukkanodus
Species: B. jesseni
Binomial name
Bukkanodus jesseni
Zerina Johanson et al., 2007

Bukkanodus jesseni is a species of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Early Devonian period (Pragian stage, about 407 to 411 million years ago). B. jesseni was first described in 2007 by paleontologist Zerina Johanson in the Journal of Paleontology from specimens found in Victoria, Australia.

A new phylogenetic analysis of sarcopterygians placed Bukkanodus outside of the Onychodontiformes as a stem-actinistan basal to the Onychodontiformes+Coelacanthiformes clade.


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