Laccognathus panderi

{{Short description|Extinct species of fish}}

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| image = Laccognathus panderi - reconstruction.jpg

| image_caption = Reconstruction of Laccognathus panderi

| genus = Laccognathus

| species = panderi

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Middle Devonian|Frasnian|Middle to Late Devonian}}

| authority = Gross, 1941

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Laccognathus panderi is an extinct lobe-finned fish from northern Europe. They existed from the Middle Devonian to the Late Devonian (around 397.5 to 360 mya).

L. panderi has been recovered from the Middle Devonian Gauja Formation and Late Devonian Amata Formation of Latvia,{{cite journal|author=Vorobyeva, E.I.|year=2006|title=A new species of Laccognathus (Porolepiform Crossopterygii) from the Devonian of Latvia|journal=Paleontol. J.|volume=40|issue=3|pages=312–322|publisher=Physorg.com|doi=10.1134/S0031030106030129|s2cid=129696592 }} the Kalmetumägi outcrop of Estonia, and the Lower Frasnian stage rocks of the Kursk region in Russia in what appears to have been either a marine coastal region or a lagoon.{{cite journal|author=Moloshnikov, S.V.|year=2007|title=Psammosteiforms (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Lower Frasnian of the Mikhailovskii Mine, Kursk Region, Russia|journal=Paleontol. J.|volume=41|issue=5|pages=84–88|doi=10.1134/s0031030107050115|s2cid=129281500 }}

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