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Megapleuron

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Megapleuron
Temporal range: Asselian
Megapleuron rochei fossil
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Class: Dipnoi
Genus: Megapleuron
Gaudry, 1881
Type species
Megapleuron rochei
Gaudry, 1881

Megapleuron is an extinct genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian or lobe-finned fish that lived during the Asselian age of the Cisuralian (early Permian) epoch in what is now Burgundy, France.[1][2]

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  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Megapleuron zangerli". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Megapleuron rochei". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.