''Polyosteorhynchus'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of coelacanth lobe-finned fish which lived during the

Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

period ( Serpukhovian stage, about 318 - 326 million years ago). The size of ''Polyosteorhynchus'' was about 3,5 – 19 cm long.

Species of Polyosteorhynchus

*'' Polyosteorhynchus simplex''

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and

, 1984

External links

Polyosteorhynchus at Palaeos
Hadronectoridae Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera Carboniferous bony fish Mississippian fish of North America {{paleo-lobefinned-fish-stub