Actinolepis Temporal range: Early Devonian, | |
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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 | |
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]