Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Alternative combination: Acrolepis sedgwicki
Synonyms: Acrolepis asper Agassiz 1833, Acrolepis dunkeri Kurtze 1839, Gyrolepis asper Agassiz 1833, Palaeoniscus dunkeri Kurtze 1839
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48
Belongs to Acrolepis according to H. W. Holzapfel and E. Malzahn 1984
See also Agassiz 1833, Agassiz 1839, Agassiz 1843, Hay 1902, Howse 1848, King 1850, Münster 1842, Schultze et al. 2021 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxa: Acrolepis barbarus, Acrolepis chuvashovi, Acrolepis frequens, Acrolepis gigas, Acrolepis hamiltoni, Acrolepis hopkinsi, Acrolepis hortonensis, Acrolepis hussakofi, Acrolepis laetus, Acrolepis languescens, Acrolepis macroderma, Acrolepis minichi, Acrolepis ortholepis, Acrolepis reticulata, Acrolepis semigranulosa, Acrolepis tasmanicus, Acrolepis wilsoni
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of Germany (7 collections), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (6)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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