Leptolepis lowei Woodward 1895 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae

Full reference: A. S. Woodward. 1895. The fossil fishes of the Talbragar Beds (Jurassic?). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of New South Wales 9:1-31

Belongs to Leptolepis according to A. S. Woodward 1895

See also Woodward 1895

Sister taxa: Leptolepis africana, Leptolepis autissiodorensis, Leptolepis bahiaensis, Leptolepis brodiei, Leptolepis caudalis, Leptolepis concentricus, Leptolepis contractus, Leptolepis coryphaenoides, Leptolepis crassus, Leptolepis disjectus, Leptolepis dubius, Leptolepis gregarius, Leptolepis jaegeri, Leptolepis koonwarri, Leptolepis longus, Leptolepis macrolepidotus, Leptolepis macrophthalmus, Leptolepis neocomiensis, Leptolepis neumayri, Leptolepis nevadensis, Leptolepis normandica, Leptolepis polyspondylus, Leptolepis saltviciensis, Leptolepis sprattiformis, Leptolepis talbragarensis, Leptolepis tenellus, Leptolepis voithii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Talbragar Beds, which is in an Oxfordian/Tithonian lacustrine shale in the Purlawaugh Formation of Australia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Talbragar Beds

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