Contact David Shuff 37 Devoe Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 Phone: (347) 234-2541 Email: dave@davidshuff.com Coelacanth (seel-uh-kanth) n. Oldest living lineage of jawed fish known to date. Believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period, until a single living species was identified off the coast of South Africa in 1938.