Laugiidae is an extinct

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of prehistoric

sarcopterygian Sarcopterygii (; ) — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii () — is a taxon (traditionally a class or subclass) of the bony fishes known as the lobe-finned fishes. The group Tetrapoda, a mostly terrestrial superclass includ ...

fishes which lived during the

Triassic The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...

and

Jurassic period The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...

. Their fossils has been found in

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Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...

and China.Jinnan Tong, Xiugao Zhou, Douglas H. Erwin, Jingxun Zuo & Laishi Zhao: ''Fossil fishes from the Lower Triassic of Majiashan, Chaohu, Anhui Province, China''. Journal of Paleontology, 80(1), 2006, pp. 146-161
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Genera

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Laugia ''Laugia'' is a genus of coelacanth fishes which lived during the Early Triassic epoch in Greenland. It contains one species, ''Laugia groenlandica'', named by Erik Stensiö in 1932. Along with the Early Triassic '' Belemnocerca'' and the Late Ju ...

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Trachymetopon ''Trachymetopon'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth from the Jurassic of Europe. Fossils have been found in the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives of France, and probably the Late Jurassic Ki ...

References

* Peter L. Forey: ''History of the Coelacanth Fishes.'' Springer Verlag GmbH, * Karl Albert Frickhinger: ''Fossilien Atlas Fische'', Mergus-Verlag, Melle, 1999, Prehistoric lobe-finned fish families Triassic bony fish Jurassic bony fish Jurassic extinctions Triassic first appearances {{paleo-lobefinned-fish-stub