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Leptolepis
Taxonomy
Leptolepis was named by Agassiz (1832) [Sepkoski's age data: J Toar K Apti Sepkoski's reference number: 915].
It was assigned to Pachycormiformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Leptolepididae by Schaeffer (1947), Arratia (2017); and to Leptolepidae by Owen (1859), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1919), Rayner (1948), Gardiner (1960), Wenz (1967), Delsate (1997), Argyriou (2022).
It was assigned to Pachycormiformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Leptolepididae by Schaeffer (1947), Arratia (2017); and to Leptolepidae by Owen (1859), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1919), Rayner (1948), Gardiner (1960), Wenz (1967), Delsate (1997), Argyriou (2022).
Species
L. africana, L. autissiodorensis, L. bahiaensis, L. brodiei (syn. Sarginites pygmaeus, Megastoma apenninum, Oxygonius tenuis, L. nanus), L. caudalis, L. concentricus, L. contractus, L. coryphaenoides (syn. L. bronni, L. pronus, L. constrictus, L. affinis, L. pachystelus), L. crassus, L. disjectus, L. dubius, L. gregarius, L. jaegeri, L. koonwarri, L. longus, L. lowei, L. macrolepidotus, L. macrophthalmus, L. neocomiensis, L. neumayri, L. nevadensis, L. normandica, L. polyspondylus, L. saltviciensis, L. sprattiformis, L. talbragarensis, L. tenellus, L. voithii
Species lacking formal opinion data