Actinolepis (placoderm)

Not to be confused with Actinolepis (plant).

Actinolepis Temporal range: Early Devonian, 409.1–391.9  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Reconstruction of A. tuberculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	† Placodermi
Order:	† Arthrodira
Family:	† Actinolepidae
Genus:	† Actinolepis Agassiz, 1845 [1]
Type species
†Actinolepis tuberculata Agassiz, 1845 [1]
Other species
†A. magnaMark-Kurik, 1973 (vide Denison, 1978) [2] †A. spinosaMark-Kurik, 1985 [3] †A. zaikaiPlax & Newman, 2020 [4]

Actinolepis is an extinct genus of actinolepid ^[5] placoderm from the Early Devonian. Four species are known: A. magna from Estonia, ^[2] A. spinosa from Latvia (Sevy Dolomite), ^[3] the type species A. tuberculata from New Zealand (Adam Mudstone Formation) ^[1] and A. zaikai from Belarus (Lepel Beds). ^[4]

Gallery

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  Fragmentary dorsal armour of A. magna (specimen EMNH 203503); housed at the Estonian Museum of Natural History

References

1. http://www.palaeos.org/Actinolepidae
2. R. Denison. 1978. Placodermi. In H.-P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Palaeoichthyology 2:1-128 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable /G. Lloyd]
3. Mark-Kurik, Elga (1985). "Actinolepis spinosa n. sp. (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of Latvia" . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 5 (4): 287–292. doi:10.1080/02724634.1985.10011866. ISSN   0272-4634.
4. Dmitry P. Plax; Michael J. Newman (2020). "New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (4): 773–787. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.6. S2CID   216191250.
5. H. G. Johnson, D. K. Elliott, and J. H. Wittke. 2000. A new actinolepid arthrodire (Class Placodermi) from the Lower Devonian Sevy Dolomite, east-central Nevada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(2):241-266 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]