Laugiidae

Fossil of Coccoderma suevicum in the Jura Museum in Eichstätt

• Germany, Greenland and possibly China

The Laugiidae are a family of coelacanth which occurred from the Lower Triassic to Upper Jurassic. Fossils of which must be an Laugiidae genera were found in Germany, Greenland and possibly in China.

Features

The Laugiidae were small to medium sized fish ( 17-25 cm) of slender to stout shape. The head was narrow, the eyes large, pointed snout rounded, muzzle moderately deep. The first dorsal fin in front of the middle of the body, the second in the rear half of the body. The pelvic fins were behind the dorsal fin. The bones of the pelvic fins were either laterally expanded or grown together over their entire ventral midline. The caudal fin was three-lobed, the middle clear brush-like. The bones of the cheeks ( sides of head ) were reduced. The pores of the page Line Systems on the head got bigger snout to end and toward the symphysis of the mandible.

Genera

• Coccoderma Qyendstedt, 1858 ( Tithonian, Bavaria )
• Laugia Stensio, 1932 ( Griesbachium, Greenland)