Chinlea

Chinlea; Temporal range: Late Triassic
	Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Order:	Coelacanthiformes
Family:	†Mawsoniidae
Genus:	†Chinlea
Species
	†Chinlea campii; †Chinlea sorenseni[1];

Chinlea is an extinct genus of Triassic mawsoniid coelacanth fish found in and named after the Chinle Formation that crops out in the southwestern states of Arizona and New Mexico.[2] The length of Chinlea was about 80 centimetres (2.6 ft).[3] Chinlea had lobed fins and a slender tail. The teeth were large and sharp.

Chinlea (middle left) and other fish from the Chinle Formation

References

A New Specimen of Chinlea sorenseni from the Chinle Formation, Dolores River, Colorado. David K. Elliott, Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Vol. 22, No. 1, Triassic Continental Deposits of the American Southwest (1987), pp. 47-52 (|Stable URL retrieved 04 May 2016)
The paleobiology Database
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. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90962-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8175595.

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[1] A New Specimen of Chinlea sorenseni from the Chinle Formation, Dolores River, Colorado. David K. Elliott, Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, Vol. 22, No. 1, Triassic Continental Deposits of the American Southwest (1987), pp. 47-52 (|Stable URL retrieved 04 May 2016)

[PBDB-2] The paleobiology Database

[3] 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. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90962-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8175595.