Soederberghia

Soederberghia; Temporal range: Late Devonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Vertebrata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Subclass:	Dipnoi
Family:	Rhynchodipteridae
Genus:	Soederberghia
Species
	S. groenlandica (type); (Lehman, 1959); S. simpsoni ; (Ahlberg et al., 2001);

Soederberghia is a genus of prehistoric lungfish that lived during the late Devonian period.

Soederberghia probably had a widespread range because fossils have been discovered in North America, Greenland and Australia.

The long-snouted Soederberghia shares many relationships with the lungfish Rhynchodipterus.

References

Ahlberg, Per E.; Johanson, Z.; Daeschler, E. B. (2001). "The Late Devonian lungfish Soederberghia (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from Australia and North America, and its biogeographical implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 21 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0001:TLDLSS]2.0.CO;2.

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