Earth Sciences section
Museum of natural history of the City of Geneva
Muséum d’histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève
Route de Malagnou, 1
1208 Genève

Dr. Lionel Cavin, lionel.cavin@ville-ge.ch, +41224186333

Topics: Paleontology

The objectives are 1) to study a couple of rare fossils of coelacanths discovered in the Cretaceous of Lebanon; 2) to resolve the phylogenetic position of this species among actinistans and; 3) to understand its impact in the evolutionary history of the clade.