Mawsonia (fish)
Mawsonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish, and the largest of this group, ranging from an estimated up to long. It lived during the Cretaceous period. Fossils have been found in the Tegana and Aoufous Formations of Morocco, the Continental Intercalaire Formation of Algeria and Tunisia and the Ain el Guettar Formation of Tunisia, Africa, the Babouri Figuil Basin of Cameroon and the Bahia Group and Alcântara and Missão Velha Formations of Brazil, South America. Mawsonia was first described by British palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward in 1907. The type species is Mawsonia gigas, named and described in 1907. Seven other species have been described since.
