Aphnelepis Woodward 1895 (ray-finned fish)

Osteichthyes - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae

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

Parent taxon: Semionotidae according to A. S. Woodward 1895

See also Gardiner 1960 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acentrophorus, Aetheolepis, Archaeolepidotus, Hemicalypterus, Lepidotes, Paradapedium, Pristisomus, Sargodon, Semionotus, Semionotus serratus, Tetragonolepis, Tianfuichthys, Mengius

Subtaxa: Aphnelepis australis

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Type: Aphnelepis australis

Ecology: nektonic durophage-carnivore

Distribution: found only at Talbragar Beds (Jurassic of Australia)

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