Morrolepis

Morrolepis Temporal range: Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous ~163.5–140.0  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Morrolepis schaefferi fossil
Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Family:	† Coccolepididae
Genus:	† Morrolepis Kirkland, 1998
Type species
†Morrolepis schaefferi Kirkland, 1998
Other species
†M. andrewsi(Woodward, 1891) †M. aniscowitchi(Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926)

Morrolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric coccolepidid "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous epochs in Europe, Asia and North America. ^[1]

The type species is Morrolepis schaefferi from the Morrison Formation (Colorado, Utah), measuring approximately 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length. ^[2] The other species were previously referred to the genus Coccolepis . ^[1] Including M. andrewsi(Woodward, 1891) from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group, England and M. aniscowitchi(Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) from the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish
• Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation

References

1. Skrzycka, Roksana (2014). "Revision of two relic actinopterygians from the Middle or Upper Jurassic Karabastau Formation, Karatau Range, Kazakhstan". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38 (3): 364–390. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.880267. S2CID   129308632.
2. Kirkland, James Ian (1998). "Morrison fishes". Modern Geology. 22: 503–533.