Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes
Alternative spelling: Lepidotus
Synonyms: Plesiodus Wagner 1863, Prolepidotus Michael 1893, Scrobodus Munster
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1832. Untersuchungen über die fossilen Fische der Lias-Formation. Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 3:139-149
Parent taxon: Lepisosteiformes according to A. López-Arbarello 2012
See also Delsate 1997, Gardiner 1960, Goodwin et al. 1999, Hay 1902, Lapparent 1955, Nelson et al. 2016, Rayner 1948, Schaeffer 1947, Sepkoski 2002, Tabaste 1963, Wenz 1967, Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1916
Sister taxa: Isanichthys, Lanxangichthys, Lepisosteioidei, Scheenstia, Sheenstia
Subtaxa: Lepidotes dashanpuensis Lepidotes elvensis 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: Cyprinus elvensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (7 collections), Argentina (2), Belgium (1), Brazil (7), Canada (1: Alberta), Croatia (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), India (3), Italy (2), Japan (4), Libya (3), Madagascar (1), Morocco (6), Niger (4), Portugal (2), Spain (29), Thailand (1), Tunisia (12), the United Kingdom (11), United States (26: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Maryland, Montana, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Morocco (1), Thailand (2)
• Jurassic of Brazil (7), Chile (4), China (2), Cuba (1), Ethiopia (1), France (12), Germany (9), India (1), Kyrgyzstan (2), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Portugal (9), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (11), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (25)
• Triassic to Jurassic of Ethiopia (1)
• Triassic of Austria (2), China (1), France (7), Germany (1), Italy (1), the Netherlands (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Utah)
Total: 243 collections including 265 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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