Westollia

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Westollia
Temporal range: Asselian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Aeduelliformes
Family: Aeduellidae
Genus: Westollia
White & Moy-Thomas, 1940
Type species
Lepidopterus crassus
Pohlig, 1892
Synonyms
  • LepidopterusPohlig, 1892 non Agassiz 1846

Westollia is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Asselian age (Cisuralian/early Permian) in what is now Thuringia, Germany. [1] [2]

The type and only species, Westollia crassa, was first described as Lepidopterus crassus, but because this genus name was preoccupied, a new genus name was given, Westollia, honoring Thomas Stanley Westoll. [3]

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References

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