30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen
30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen 30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen 30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen 30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen 30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen

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30158 - Beatiful Association of 2 Leptolepis sprattiformis Fossil Fishes - Jurassic Solnhofen

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Species
Leptolepis sprattiformis (Blainville, 1818)
Age
Upper Jurassic, (~157 million years)
Location
Lagenaltheim, Germany
Formation
Solnhofen Limestone
Size
58.7 mm   •    in
Weight
196 g   •    oz
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Description

Leptolepis, Agassiz 1843 (ray-finned fish)
Osteichthyes - Teleostei - Leptolepididae

 
PaleoDB taxon number: 35266

Synonyms: Ascalabos Münster 1839 (no. 99547), Megastoma Costa 1850 (no. 99549), Oxygonius Agassiz 1845 (no. 99840), Sarginites Costa 1850 (no. 99548), Tharsis Giebel 1848 (no. 35302)

Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii-188

Parent taxon: Leptolepididae according to G. Arratia 2017

See also Delsate 1997, Gardiner 1960, Rayner 1948, Sepkoski 2002, Wenz 1967, Woodward 1895, Woodward 1895 and Woodward 1919

Sister taxa: Longileptolepis, Lycoptera, Proleptolepis

Subtaxa: Leptolepis africana, Leptolepis autissiodorensis, Leptolepis brodiei, Leptolepis concentricus, Leptolepis coryphaenoides, Leptolepis disjectus, Leptolepis gregarius, Leptolepis jaegeri, Leptolepis koonwarri, Leptolepis lowei, Leptolepis macrophthalmus, Leptolepis nevadensis, Leptolepis normandica, Leptolepis saltviciensis, Leptolepis talbragarensis

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Environments: marine (20 collections), terrestrial (2), offshore (1), lacustrine - small (1), pond (1), fluvial (1), lagoonal (1), shallow subtidal (1), lacustrine (1), offshore (1)

Age range: 242.0 to 112.6 Ma

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Australia (2 collections), Belgium (1), United States (1: Nevada)

• Jurassic of Australia (1), France (11), Germany (6), Italy (2), Japan (1), Luxembourg (6), Norway (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (1: Colorado)

• Triassic of Italy (1)

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