Lazarus taxon

Lazarus taxon
strictly, a taxon belonging to a species that vanished from the fossil record many years ago but the term is generally applied to a taxon whose close relatives were thought to be long extinct, e.g. the coelacanth. Named for the biblical Lazarus who was raised from the dead

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