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Aetheolepis
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Aetheolepis
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A. mirabilis
Binomial name
Aetheolepis mirabilis
Woodward 1895

Aetheolepis mirabilis is an extinct species of prehistoric archaeomaenid ray-finned fish that lived in freshwater environments in what is now Western Australia and New South Wales. A. mirabilis is easily distinguished from other archaeomaenids by having a deep, discoid-shaped body. Fossils of A. mirabilis have been found in the Talbragar River fossil beds of New South Wales and the Colalura Sandstone of Western Australia.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.