Diplocercides is an extinct genus of marine coelacanth which lived during the Late Devonian period.
Another alleged specimen from the Frasnian-aged Gogo Formation of Australia[3] was also later described in its own genus, Ngamugawi.
[4] The species D. davisi Moy-Thomas, 1937, from the Mississippian of Ireland, which was formerly thought to be the only post-Devonian species, is now thought to represent a subadult Rhabdoderma, indicating that Diplocercides likely went extinct by the End-Devonian extinction.
[2][5] Fossils of the species D. kayseri are known to have three-dimensionally preserved cranial endocasts, making it one of the only known coelacanths aside from the extant Latimeria where the shape of the brain is known.
[3][4] In 2010, three-dimensional specimens of tentative Diplocercides were described from the Gogo Formation of Western Australia, with these also containing preserved endocasts; these were later described in their own genus, Ngamugawi.