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(Redirected from Leptolepid) Extinct family of ray-finned fishes

Leptolepidae
Temporal range: Sinemurian–Callovian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Leptolepis coryphaenoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Leptolepiformes
Family: Leptolepidae
Nicholson & Lydekker, 1889
Genera

Leptolepidae (also spelt as Leptolepididae) 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.

References

  1. ^ 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.
Teleostei sensu de Pinna, 1996 (= Teleosteomorpha)
Actinopterygii
Neopterygii
Teleostei
    • see below↓
Teleostei
Teleostei
Pachycormidae
Hypsocorminae
Asthenocorminae
Aspidorhynchidae
Pholidophoridae
sensu stricto
Archaeomaenidae
Siyuichthyidae
Pleuropholidae
Ankylophoridae
Catervariolidae
Cycloid clade
Leptolepididae
Ascalaboidae
Crossognathiformes
Ichthyodectiformes
Crown-Teleostei
    • see below↓
Leedsichthys problematicus

Aspidorhynchus acutirostris Ichthyokentema purbeckensis

Tharsis dubius
Crown-Teleostei
Elopomorpha
Orthogonikleithridae
Osteoglossomorpha
Tselfatiiformes
Protobramidae
Plethodidae
Clupeocephala
Pentanogmius evolutus
Taxon identifiers
Leptolepidae


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