Aulolepis Temporal range:
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Specimen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Ctenothrissiformes |
Family: | †Aulolepidae |
Genus: | †Aulolepis Agassiz, 1844 |
Species: | †A. typus
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Binomial name | |
†Aulolepis typus |
Aulolepis (from Greek: ανλος aulos, 'pipe' and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')[3] is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the upper Cenomanian and early Turonian. It contains a single species, A. typus from the Chalk Group of the United Kingdom.[1]
It is generally classified as a member of the Ctenothrissiformes, a group of basal mid-Cretaceous acanthomorphs.[4][5] However, one as-of-yet unpublished study has found it to be an aulopiform instead.[6]