Back موسونيا (سمك) Arabic Mawsonia Spanish ماوسونیا (ماهی) Persian Mawsonia French מאוסוניה HE Mawsonia Italian マウソニア Japanese Mawsonia (visgeslacht) Dutch Mawsonia Portuguese Mawsonia Russian
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| Skeleton of Mawsonia gigas, showing estimated size of largest known individual | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Mawsonia Woodward, 1907 |
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| †Mawsonia gigas Woodward, 1907
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Mawsonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish. It is amongst the largest of all coelacanths, with one quadrate specimen (DGM 1.048-P) possibly belonging to an individual measuring 5.3 metres (17.4 feet) in length.[2] It lived in freshwater and brackish environments from the late Jurassic to the mid-Cretaceous (Tithonian to Cenomanian stages, about 152 to 96 million years ago) of South America, eastern North America, and Africa. Mawsonia was first described by British paleontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1907.[3]
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- ^ Cavin, Lionel; Piuz, André; Ferrante, Christophe; Guinot, Guillaume (2021-06-03). "Giant Mesozoic coelacanths (Osteichthyes, Actinistia) reveal high body size disparity decoupled from taxic diversity". Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 11812. Bibcode:2021NatSR..1111812C. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90962-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8175595. PMID 34083600.
- ^ Mawsonia Archived 2021-12-12 at the Wayback Machine at Fossilworks.org