Westollia Temporal range:
| |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Aeduelliformes |
Family: | †Aeduellidae |
Genus: | †Westollia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940 |
Type species | |
†Lepidopterus crassus Pohlig, 1892
| |
Synonyms | |
|
Westollia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Asselian age (Cisuralian/early Permian) in what is now Thuringia, Germany.[1][2]
The type and only species, Westollia crassa, was first described as Lepidopterus crassus, but because this genus name was preoccupied, a new genus name was given, Westollia, honoring Thomas Stanley Westoll.[3]