Osteichthyes - Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepididae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1833. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome II (1re livraison) 1-48
Parent taxon: Acrolepididae according to A. S. Bakaev et al. 2020
See also Diedrich 2009, Hay 1902, López-Arbarello et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Woodward 1891
Sister taxon: Kazanichthys
Subtaxa: 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 sedgwickii Acrolepis semigranulosa Acrolepis tasmanicus Acrolepis wilsoni
Type: Acrolepis sedgwickii
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Permian of Brazil (1), Germany (8), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (6), United States (2: Oklahoma, South Dakota)
• Chokierian of Belgium (1)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), Canada (4: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia), Czechia (7), Greenland (1), Ireland (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (15)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 68 collections including 75 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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