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Ascalabos

Ascalabos is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. It contains one species, A. voithii. Some authorities synonymize it with Leptolepis.

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Ascalabos
Temporal range:
Fossil of A. voithii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Ascalaboidiformes
Family: †Ascalaboidae
Genus: †Ascalabos
Münster, 1839
Species:
†A. voithii
Binomial name
†Ascalabos voithii
Münster, 1839

Ascalabos is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. It contains one species, A. voithii.12 Some authorities synonymize it with Leptolepis.3

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References

  1. Arratia, G. (2016-01-18). "New remarkable Late Jurassic teleosts from southern Germany: Ascalaboidae n. fam., its content, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships". Fossil Record. 19 (1): 31–59. Bibcode:2016FossR..19...31A. doi:10.5194/fr-19-31-2016. ISSN 2193-0066.
  2. Arratia, Gloria; Schultze, Hans-Peter; Tischlinger, Helmut (2019-01-07). "On a remarkable new species of Tharsis, a Late Jurassic teleostean fish from southern Germany: its morphology and phylogenetic relationships". Fossil Record. 22 (1): 1–23. Bibcode:2019FossR..22....1A. doi:10.5194/fr-22-1-2019. ISSN 2193-0066.
  3. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.