Lepidotes elvensis de Blainville 1818 (gar)

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

Alternative combinations: Cyprinus elvensis, Lepidotus elvensis

Full reference: H. D. de Blainville. 1818. Poissons fossiles. Nouvelle Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle 27:310-395

Belongs to Lepidotes according to A. López-Arbarello 2012

See also de Blainville 1818, Delsate 1997, Hay 1902, Wenz 1967, Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1916

Sister taxa: Lepidotes dashanpuensis, Lepidotes gigas, Lepidotes gloriae, Lepidotes lennieri, Lepidotes macropterus, Lepidotes microrhis, Lepidotes pankowskii, Lepidotes semiserratus, Lepidotes tanyrhis, Lepidotes toombsi, Lepidotes walcotti, Lepidotes wenzae, Lepidotus affinis, Lepidotus fimbriatus, Lepidotus fittoni, Lepidotus frondosus, Lepidotus gallineki, Lepidotus latifrons, Lepidotus leedsi, Lepidotus lusitanicus, Lepidotus macrocheirus, Lepidotus maximiliani, Lepidotus minor, Lepidotus oblongus, Lepidotus occidentalis, Lepidotus palliatus, Lepidotus parvulus, Lepidotus piauhyensis, Lepidotus pustulatus, Lepidotus radiatus, Lepidotus rugosus, Lepidotus souzai, Lepidotus speciosus, Lepidotus striatus, Lepidotus subdenticulatus, Lepidotus subovatus, Lepidotus subundatus, Lepidotus tuberculatus, Lepidotus undatus, Lepidotus unguiculatus, Lepidotus virleti

Type specimen: Its type locality is Elbes, Aveyron, which is in a Toarcian marine limestone in France

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of France (3 collections), Germany (3), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 7 collections including 8 occurrences

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