Allolepidotus

Allolepidotus
Temporal range: Ladinian
Restoration of Allolepidotus bellottii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Ionoscopiformes
Family: Subortichthyidae
Genus: Allolepidotus
Deecke, 1889
Type species
Allolepidotus bellottii
(Rüppell in Bellotti, 1857)
Other species
  • Allolepidotus? rueppelli (Bellotti, 1857)

Allolepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine neopterygian ray-finned fish from the Middle Triassic epoch of what is now Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. It was formerly referred to the halecomorph order Panxianichthyiformes, but is now thought to be a member of the Ionoscopiformes.[1][2][3]

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References

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  1. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  2. ^ Sun, Zuoyu; Tintori, Andrea; Xu, Yaozhong; Lombardo, Cristina; Ni, Peigang; Jiang, Dayoung (April 2017). "A new non-parasemionotiform order of the Halecomorphi (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Tethys". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (3): 223–240. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1181679. S2CID 133176227.
  3. ^ FENG Dong-Hao, XU Guang-Hui (2023). Taxonomic revision of Sinoeugnathus kueichowensis(Halecomorphi, Holostei) from the Middle Triassic ofGuizhou and Yunnan, China.