C. grossi, surrounded by antiarch placoderms Remigolepis walkeri and Bothriolepis yeungae. Cast. Mandagery Sandstone, Canowindra, New South Wales (Australia)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Clade:
Sarcopterygii
Clade:
Tetrapodomorpha
Family:
†Canowindridae
Genus:
†Canowindra Thomson, 1973
Species:
†C. grossi
Binomial name
†Canowindra grossi
Thomson, 1973
Canowindra is a prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Late Devonian period (about 374 to 359 million years ago). The genus is known from only a single well preserved specimen, dubbed Canowindra grossi, after Professor Walter Gross, who spent his career studying lobe-finned fish, and after the Australian town in which it was found, Canowindra. Canowindra grossi was apparently comparatively small in size (about 50 cm) and belongs to the family of Canowindridae.
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