Aulolepis
Aulolepis Temporal range:
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Specimen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Ctenothrissiformes |
Family: | †Aulolepidae |
Genus: | †Aulolepis Agassiz, 1844 |
Species: | †A. typus
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Binomial name | |
†Aulolepis typus |
Aulolepis (from Greek: ανλος aulos, 'pipe' and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')[3] is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the upper Cenomanian and early Turonian. It contains a single species, A. typus from the Chalk Group of the United Kingdom.[1]
It is generally classified as a member of the Ctenothrissiformes, a group of basal mid-Cretaceous acanthomorphs.[4][5] However, one as-of-yet unpublished study has found it to be an aulopiform instead.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Murray, Alison M. (2014). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1: 101–115. doi:10.18435/B5CC78.
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 13. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
- ^ Dornburg, Alex; Townsend, Jeffrey P.; Friedman, Matt; Near, Thomas J. (2014-08-08). "Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1): 169. doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 4236503. PMID 25103329.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Delbarre, Daniel J. (2015). "Anatomy and relationships of †Aulolepis (†Ctenothrissiformes: †Aulolepidae): Implications for deep divergences within eurypterygian fishes" (PDF). Palaeontographical Society ResearchFund Reports: 3–4.