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Leptolepididae
Taxonomy
Leptolepididae was named by Owen (1859).
It was corrected as Leptolepidae by Owen (1859), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1901), Schaeffer (1947), Jordan (1963), Gardiner (1967), Delsate (1997), Arratia (2015); it was misspelled as Leptolepidae by Gregory (1923), Gardiner (1960), Patterson and Rosen (1977), Nelson (2006), Nelson et al. (2016), Arratia (2017).
It was assigned to Cycloganoidei by Owen (1859); to Isospondyli by Woodward (1895); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Clupeoidea by Schaeffer (1947); to Pholidophoroidea by Gregory (1923), Gardiner (1960); to Pholidophoroidei by Jordan (1963); to Leptolepiformes by Gardiner (1967); to Teleostei by Patterson and Rosen (1977), Delsate (1997), Arratia (2015); and to Leptolepidiformes by Nelson (2006), Nelson et al. (2016), Arratia (2017).
It was corrected as Leptolepidae by Owen (1859), Woodward (1895), Woodward (1901), Schaeffer (1947), Jordan (1963), Gardiner (1967), Delsate (1997), Arratia (2015); it was misspelled as Leptolepidae by Gregory (1923), Gardiner (1960), Patterson and Rosen (1977), Nelson (2006), Nelson et al. (2016), Arratia (2017).
It was assigned to Cycloganoidei by Owen (1859); to Isospondyli by Woodward (1895); to Actinopterygii by Woodward (1901); to Clupeoidea by Schaeffer (1947); to Pholidophoroidea by Gregory (1923), Gardiner (1960); to Pholidophoroidei by Jordan (1963); to Leptolepiformes by Gardiner (1967); to Teleostei by Patterson and Rosen (1977), Delsate (1997), Arratia (2015); and to Leptolepidiformes by Nelson (2006), Nelson et al. (2016), Arratia (2017).
Subtaxa
Entered
by M. Carrano on 2007-05-04; modified by M. Uhen on 2021-12-14
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1859 | Leptolepidae Owen p. 126 |
| 1859 | Leptolepididae Owen p. 126 |
| 1895 | Leptolepidae Woodward p. 500 |
| 1901 | Leptolepidae Woodward p. 1 |
| 1923 | Leptolepidae Gregory p. 223 |
| 1947 | Leptolepidae Schaeffer p. 13 |
| 1960 | Leptolepidae Gardiner p. 350 |
| 1963 | Leptolepidae Jordan p. 617 |
| 1967 | Leptolepidae Gardiner p. 206 |
| 1977 | Leptolepididae Patterson and Rosen p. 163 |
| 1997 | Leptolepidae Delsate p. 129 |
| 2006 | Leptolepididae Nelson p. 102 |
| 2015 | Leptolepidae Arratia p. 50 |
| 2016 | Leptolepididae Nelson et al. p. 130 |
| 2017 | Leptolepididae Arratia p. 22 |
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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.
Fm. †Leptolepididae Owen 1859
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G. †Leptolepis Agassiz 1832
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†Leptolepis africana Gardiner 1960
†Leptolepis autissiodorensis Sauvage 1892
†Leptolepis bahiaensis Schaeffer 1947
†Leptolepis brodiei Agassiz 1845
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Invalid names: Leptolepis nanus Egerton 1845 [synonym], Megastoma apenninum Costa 1850 [synonym], Oxygonius tenuis Agassiz 1845 [synonym], Sarginites pygmaeus Costa 1850 [synonym]
†Leptolepis caudalis Agassiz 1843
†Leptolepis concentricus Egerton 1849
†Leptolepis contractus Agassiz 1834
†Leptolepis coryphaenoides Bronn 1830
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Invalid names: Leptolepis affinis Sauvage 1874 [synonym], Leptolepis bronni Agassiz 1832 [objective synonym], Leptolepis constrictus Egerton 1852 [synonym], Leptolepis pachystelus Sauvage 1874 [synonym], Leptolepis pronus Sauvage 1874 [synonym]
†Leptolepis crusafonti Wenz 1968
†Leptolepis disjectus Woodward 1890
†Leptolepis dubius Blainville 1818
†Leptolepis euspondylus Gregory 1923
†Leptolepis gregarius Woodward 1895
†Leptolepis jaegeri Agassiz 1832
†Leptolepis koonwarri Waldman 1971
†Leptolepis longus Agassiz 1832
†Leptolepis lowei Woodward 1895
†Leptolepis macrolepidotus Agassiz 1834
†Leptolepis macrophthalmus Egerton 1853
†Leptolepis neocomiensis Bassani 1879
†Leptolepis neumayri Bassani 1879
†Leptolepis nevadensis David 1941
†Leptolepis normandica Nybelin 1962
†Leptolepis polyspondylus Agassiz 1834
†Leptolepis saltviciensis Simpson 1884
†Leptolepis sprattiformis Blainville 1818
†Leptolepis talbragarensis Woodward 1895
†Leptolepis tenellus Agassiz 1833
Invalid names: Megastoma Costa 1850 [synonym], Oxygonius Agassiz 1845 [synonym], Sarginites Costa 1850 [synonym], Tharsis Giebel 1848 [synonym]
G. †Longileptolepis Arratia 2003
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†Longileptolepis wiedenrothi Arratia and Thies 2001
Invalid names: Paraleptolepis Yabumoto 1994 [replaced]
G. †Proleptolepis
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available