Cleithrolepis

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Cleithrolepis
Temporal range: Early to Middle Triassic
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Polzbergiiformes
Family: Cleithrolepididae
Genus: Cleithrolepis
Egerton, 1864
Type species
Cleithrolepis granulatus
Egerton, 1864
Species
  • C. altus Woodward, 1890
  • C. granulatusEgerton, 1864
  • C. major Gardiner, 1988
  • ?C. brueckneriOertle, 1931

Cleithrolepis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived from the Induan age (Early Triassic epoch) to the Anisian (Middle Triassic) in what is now Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania) and Libya. A species from Late Triassic Germany, C. brueckneri, was also ascribed to Cleithrolepis. [1] [2]

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Taxonomy

The following species are known: [1]

Dubious remains are known from the Ladinian of Spain. [2] The dubious species "C." brueckneriOertle, 1931 from the Carnian of Germany was previously assigned to this genus, although its actual taxonomic status remains uncertain. [1] The former species C. extoniWoodward, 1888 from South Africa has been reclassified into the related genus Cleithrolepidina , while the former species C. cuyana from Argentina has been reclassified into Pseudobeaconia in the Louwoichthyiformes. [1] [6]

It was formerly placed in the order Perleidiformes, but recent taxonomic revisions have found that order to be non-monophyletic, and it is now placed in the order Polzbergiiformes. [7]

Appearance

The genus grew to about 30 centimetres (12 in) long. It had a weak lower jaw with teeth only at the tip. [8]

Occurrence

Cleithrolepis lived in rivers, billabongs and lakes in the large braided river system that deposited the Hawkesbury Sandstone in what is now New South Wales, with fossils found in shale lenses within the sandstone. [9] Fossils were also found in Tasmania (Knocklofty Formation) and in a drill core sample from Libya, 10,840 feet (3,300 m) below the surface. [3] [4] [5]

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