Cleithrolepis

Cleithrolepis
Temporal range: Early to Middle Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Polzbergiiformes
Family: †Cleithrolepididae
Genus: †Cleithrolepis
Egerton, 1864
Type species
†Cleithrolepis granulatus
Egerton, 1864
Species
  • †C. altus Woodward, 1890
  • †C. granulatus Egerton, 1864
  • †C. major Gardiner, 1988
  • ?†C. brueckneri Oertle, 1931

Cleithrolepis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived from the Induan age (Early Triassic epoch) to the Anisian (Middle Triassic) in what is now Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania) and Libya. A species from Late Triassic Germany, C. brueckneri, was also ascribed to Cleithrolepis.[1][2]

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  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-18.