Iberolepis

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Iberolepis
Temporal range: Early Devonian
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Order: Cladoselachida
Genus: Iberolepis
Mader, 1986
Type species
Iberolepis aragonensis
Mader, 1986

Iberolepis is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Early Devonian of Spain. It includes a single species, I. aragonensis, which is known only from scales. [1] [2]

References

  1. Martínez-Pérez, C.; Dupret, V.; Manzanares, E.; Botella, H. (2010). "New data on the Lower Devonian chondrichthyan fauna from Celtiberia (Spain)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1622–1627. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501451.
  2. Wang, Ronghu (1993). Taxonomie, Palökologie und Biostratigraphie der Mikroichthyolithen aus dem Unterdevon Keltiberiens, Spanien. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.