Acropholis
Appearance
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Acropholis Temporal range: Wuchiapingian
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A. stensioei fossil, Geological Museum, Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Elonichthyiformes |
Family: | †Acrolepididae |
Genus: | †Acropholis Aldinger, 1937 |
Type species | |
†A. stensioei Aldinger, 1937
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Species | |
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Acropholis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the Wuchiapingian age (Lopingian/late Permian epoch) in what is now Greenland and Hesse (Germany).[2][3]
The following species are known:[1]
- A. kamensis Esin, 1995
- A. silantievi Esin and Mashin, 1996
- A. stensioiei Aldinger, 1937
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "†Acropholis Aldinger 1937 (ray-finned fish)". The Paleobiology Database.
- ^ Aldinger, Hermann (1937). "Permische Ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland". Meddelelser om Grønland (in German). 102 (3): 1–392.
- ^ Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.