Lualabaea
| Lualabaea Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Class: | Actinistia |
| Order: | Coelacanthiformes |
| Suborder: | Latimerioidei |
| Family: | †Mawsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Lualabaea Saint-Seine, 1955 |
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Lualabaea is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater coelacanth, belonging to the family Mawsoniidae, from the Jurassic period. It contains two species, L. lerichei Saint-Seine, 1955 and L. henryi Saint-Seine, 1955, both known from the (formerly considered Middle Jurassic, but more recently Kimmeridgian-aged) Stanleyville Formation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It may be related to or possibly synonymous with Axelrodichthys.