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Morrolepis

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Morrolepis
Temporal range: Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous
~163.5–140.0 Ma
Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Coccolepididae
Genus: Morrolepis
Kirkland, 1998
Type species
Morrolepis schaefferi
Kirkland, 1998
Other species
  • M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891)
  • M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926)

Morrolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric coccolepidid "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous epochs in Europe, Asia and North America.[1]

The type species is Morrolepis schaefferi from the Morrison Formation (Colorado, Utah), measuring approximately 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length.[2] The other species were previously referred to the genus Coccolepis.[1] Including M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891) from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group, England and M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) from the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

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References

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  1. ^ 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. S2CID 129308632.
  2. ^ Kirkland, James Ian (1998). "Morrison fishes". Modern Geology. 22: 503–533.