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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Dapediiformes |
| Family: | †Dapediidae |
| Genus: | †Dapedium Leach, 1822 |
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| †Dapedium politum Leach, 1822
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Dapedium (from Greek: δαπέδων dapédon, 'pavement')[1] is an extinct genus of primitive marine neopterygian ray-finned fish. The first-described finding was an example of D. politum, found in the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast of England (Leach 1822). Dapedium lived in the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic period, from the late Norian to the early Aalenian.[2][3]
- ^ Roberts, George (1839). An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. p. 45. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ Thies, Detlev; Waschkewitz, Jens (2016). "Redescription of Dapedium pholidotum (Agassiz, 1832) (Actinopterygii, Neopterygii) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale, with comments on the phylogenetic position of Dapedium Leach, 1822". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (4): 339–364. Bibcode:2016JSPal..14..339T. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1043361. S2CID 130282395.
- ^ Maxwell, Erin E.; López-Arbarello, Adriana (2018-06-27). "A new species of the deep-bodied actinopterygian Dapedium from the Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) of southwestern Germany". PeerJ. 6: e5033. doi:10.7717/peerj.5033. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6026462. PMID 29967726.