Actinolepis (placoderm)

Not to be confused with Actinolepis (plant).

Actinolepis
Temporal range: Early Devonian, 409.1–391.9 Ma
Reconstruction of A. tuberculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: †Placodermi
Order: †Arthrodira
Family: †Actinolepidae
Genus: †Actinolepis
Agassiz, 1845[1]
Type species
†Actinolepis tuberculata
Agassiz, 1845[1]
Other species
  • †A. magna Mark-Kurik, 1973 (vide Denison, 1978)[2]
  • †A. spinosa Mark-Kurik, 1985[3]
  • †A. zaikai Plax & Newman, 2020[4]

Actinolepis is an extinct genus of actinolepid[5] placoderm from the Early Devonian. Four species are known: A. magna from Estonia,[2] A. spinosa from Latvia (Sevy Dolomite),[3] the type species A. tuberculata from New Zealand (Adam Mudstone Formation)[1] and A. zaikai from Belarus (Lepel Beds).[4]

  1. ^ a b c http://www.palaeos.org/Actinolepidae
  2. ^ a b R. Denison. 1978. Placodermi. In H.-P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Palaeoichthyology 2:1-128 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable /G. Lloyd]
  3. ^ a b Mark-Kurik, Elga (1985). "Actinolepis spinosa n. sp. (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of Latvia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 5 (4): 287–292. doi:10.1080/02724634.1985.10011866. ISSN 0272-4634.
  4. ^ a b Dmitry P. Plax; Michael J. Newman (2020). "New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (4): 773–787. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.6. S2CID 216191250.
  5. ^ H. G. Johnson, D. K. Elliott, and J. H. Wittke. 2000. A new actinolepid arthrodire (Class Placodermi) from the Lower Devonian Sevy Dolomite, east-central Nevada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(2):241-266 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]