Morrolepis
Morrolepis | |
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Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Family: | †Coccolepididae
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Genus: | †Morrolepis Kirkland, 1998
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Binomial name | |
†Morrolepis schaefferi Kirkland, 1998
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Other species | |
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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[]
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation
References[]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Kirkland, James Ian (1998). "Morrison fishes". Modern Geology. 22: 503–533.
Categories:
- Late Jurassic fish
- Morrison fauna
- Paleontology in Kazakhstan
- Prehistoric chondrostei
- Mesozoic fish of Asia
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs
- Jurassic fish stubs