Coccolepis

Coccolepis; Temporal range: Late Jurassic PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Coccolepis bucklandi type specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Subclass:	Chondrostei
Family:	†Coccolepididae
Genus:	†Coccolepis; Agassiz, 1843
Binomial name
	†Coccolepis bucklandi; Agassiz, 1843
Other species
	Coccolepis solnhofensis López-Arbarello, and Ebert, 2021;
Synonyms
	Browneichthys Woodward, 1899

Coccolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish in the family Coccolepididae. Originally including most species within the family, it is now restricted to two species from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.^[2] The holotype of C. bucklandi, designated and described by Louis Agassiz, was thought to be lost but was later rediscovered in Neuchâtel.^[3]

Some species originally referred to Coccolepis were later reallocated to other genera:

Coccolepis groeberi Bordas, 1943 → Condorlepis groeberi (Bordas, 1943)^[4]
Coccolepis andrewsi Woodward, 1891 → Morrolepis andrewsi (Woodward, 1891)^[5]
Coccolepis aniscowitchi Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926 → Morrolepis aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926)^[5]
Coccolepis macroptera Traquair, 1911 → Barbalepis macroptera (Traquair, 1911)^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Olive, Sébastien; Taverne, Loiuis; López-Arbarello, Adriana (2019). "A new genus of coccolepidid actinopterygian from the Cretaceous Iguanodon- bearing locality of Bernissart, Belgium". Cretaceous Research. 95: 318–335. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.11.020.
^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Ebert, Martin (2021). "Diversity of Coccolepis AGASSIZ, 1843 (Coccolepididae, Chondrostei) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen-Archipelago, Southern Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi:10.4202/app.00873.2021.
^ Ebert, Martin; Bapst, Laure; Kölbl-Ebert, Martina; Malvesy, Thierry; López-Arbarello, Adriana (2021). "Coccolepis Agassiz, 1843 (Coccolepididae, Chondrostei) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago – rediscovery of the type specimen and open questions". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 300 (1): 11–22. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2021/0976.
^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Sferco, Emilia; Rauhut, Oliver Walter Mischa (2013). "A new genus of coccolepidid fishes (Actinopterygii, Chondrostei) from the continental Jurassic of Patagonia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 16 (1): 7A:23. doi:10.26879/348.
^ ^a ^b Skrzycka, Roksana (2014). "Revision of two relic actinopterygians from the Middle or Upper Jurassic Karabastau Formation, Karatau Range, Kazakhstan". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38 (3): 364–390. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.880267.

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