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Lepidotes elvensis

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes

Taxonomy
Cyprinus elvensis was named by de Blainville (1818). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Elbes, Aveyron, which is in a Toarcian marine limestone in France. It is the type species of Lepidotus.

It was recombined as Lepidotus elvensis by Woodward (1895) and Woodward (1916); it was recombined as Lepidotes elvensis by Hay (1902), Wenz (1967), Delsate (1997) and López-Arbarello (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1818Cyprinus elvensis de Blainville p. 394
1895Lepidotus elvensis Woodward p. 84
1902Lepidotes elvensis Hay p. 374
1916Lepidotus elvensis Woodward p. 26
1967Lepidotes elvensis Wenz p. 96 figs. Pl 19, fig A; pl 21,22; pl 23, fig B; text-figs 43-49
1997Lepidotes elvensis Delsate p. 129
2012Lepidotes elvensis López-Arbarello p. 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
infraclassHolostei(Müller 1846)
—Ginglymodi(Cope 1871)
orderLepisosteiformesHay 1929
genusLepidotes
specieselvensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Lepidotes elvensis de Blainville 1818
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: freshwatero
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 21:27:01
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:32:18
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Toarcian to the top of the Early/Lower Toarcian or 182.70000 to 182.00000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0France Lepidotes elvensis (122731) Lepidotus elvensis, Lepidotes elvensis (122732)
Early/Lower Toarcian183.0 - 182.0Germany Lepidotus elvensis (122170)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1Germany Lepidotus elvensis (122169)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1Germany (Würtemberg) Lepidotus elvensis (122171)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1France Cyprinus elvensis (type locality: 122739)
Toarcian182.7 - 174.1United Kingdom (England) Lepidotus elvensis (131834)