Leptolepidae

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Leptolepidae
Temporal range: Sinemurian–Callovian
Leptolepis coryphaenoides.jpg
Fossil of Leptolepis coryphaenoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order:† Leptolepiformes
Family:† Leptolepidae
Nicholson & Lydekker, 1889
Genera [1] [2]

Leptolepidae (also Leptolepididae) [3] is an extinct family of herring-like stem-teleost fish found throughout the world during the Jurassic. They were among the first fish to possess certain teleost synapomorphies, such as cycloid scales and fully ossified vertebrae. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Arratia, G.; Hikuroa, D. C. H. (2010). "Jurassic fishes from the Latady Group, Antarctic Peninsula, and the oldest teleosts from Antarctica". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1331–1342. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1331A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501448. S2CID   128431094.
  2. ↑ Konwert, M.; Stumpf, S. (2017). "Exceptionally preserved Leptolepidae (Actinopterygii, Teleostei) from the late Early Jurassic Fossil-Lagerstätten of Grimmen and Dobbertin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany)". Zootaxa. 4243 (2): 249–296. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4243.2.2. PMID   28610149.
  3. ↑ Nelson, J. S.; Grande, T. C.; Wilson, M. V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN   9781118342336.


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