Leptolepidae
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Leptolepidae ("Delicate Scales") is an extinct family of herring-like Mesozoic teleosts found throughout the world. They were among the first teleosts to have fully ossified vertebrae.
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Categories:
- Triassic bony fish
- Jurassic bony fish
- Cretaceous bony fish
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish families
- Middle Triassic first appearances
- Ladinian taxonomic families
- Carnian taxonomic families
- Norian taxonomic families
- Rhaetian taxonomic families
- Hettangian taxonomic families
- Sinemurian taxonomic families
- Pliensbachian taxonomic families
- Toarcian taxonomic families
- Aalenian taxonomic families
- Bajocian taxonomic families
- Bathonian taxonomic families
- Callovian taxonomic families
- Oxfordian taxonomic families
- Kimmeridgian taxonomic families
- Tithonian taxonomic families
- Berriasian taxonomic families
- Early Cretaceous extinctions
- Triassic fish stubs
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish stubs