Cryptolepis grossi

Cryptolepis grossi
Temporal range: Middle to Late Famennian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Clade: Tetrapodomorpha
Order: †Osteolepiformes
Genus: †Cryptolepis
Vorobyeva, 1975
Species:
†C. grossi
Binomial name
†Cryptolepis grossi
Vorobyeva, 1975[1]

Cryptolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine lobe-finned fish known from the Late Devonian of what is now eastern Europe.[2] It contains a single species, C. grossi from the middle to late Famennian of Oryol, Russia and Latvia. Scales of this species are particularly common in Devonian localities of Latvia. It was named after paleontologist Walter R. Gross.[3][4][5]

It was previously placed in the family Megalichthyidae, but is presently considered an indeterminate "osteolepiform".[2][6]

  1. ^ Middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) Chondrichthyans and Sarcopterygians from Oryol region; Central Russia. Oleg Lebedev, Geobios, Volume 28, Supplement 2, 1995, Pages 361-368, Premiers Vertandébrandés et Vertandébrandés Infandérieurs, doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(95)80139-1
  2. ^ a b "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-26.
  3. ^ Lebedev, Oleg (1995). "Middle Famennian (Upper Devonian)Chondrichthyans and Sarcopterygians from Oryol region; Central Russia". Geobios. 28: 361–368. Bibcode:1995Geobi..28..361L. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(95)80139-1.
  4. ^ Alksnitis, Valters (2023). "Pathologies in the fish fossils from the Upper Devonian, Famennian deposits of Latvia". EGU General Assembly 2023: EGU–7156. Bibcode:2023EGUGA..25.7156A. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7156.
  5. ^ Lukševičs, Ervīns; Alksnītis, Valters; Visotina, Tatjana (2023). "A Late Devonian sarcopterygian fish assemblage from the Pavāri-2 fossil locality, Latvia" (PDF). 81st Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia: 37–38.
  6. ^ Clement, Alice M.; Cloutier, Richard; Lu, Jing; Perilli, Egon; Maksimenko, Anton; Long, John (2021-12-10). "A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography". PeerJ. 9: e12597. doi:10.7717/peerj.12597. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8667741. PMID 34966593.