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<i>Actinolepis</i> (placoderm)

Actinolepis (placoderm)

Extinct genus of fishes

Not to be confused with Actinolepis (plant).

Actinolepis is an extinct genus of actinolepid[5] placoderm from the Early Devonian. Four species are known: A. magna from Estonia,[2] A. spinosa from Latvia (Sevy Dolomite),[3] the type species A. tuberculata from New Zealand (Adam Mudstone Formation)[1] and A. zaikai from Belarus (Lepel Beds).[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    http://www.palaeos.org/Actinolepidae
  2. [2]
    R. Denison. 1978. Placodermi. In H.-P. Schultze (ed.), Handbook of Palaeoichthyology 2:1-128 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable /G. Lloyd]
  3. [3]
    Mark-Kurik, Elga (1985). "Actinolepis spinosa n. sp. (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of Latvia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 5 (4): 287–292. doi:10.1080/02724634.1985.10011866. ISSN 0272-4634.
  4. [4]
    Dmitry P. Plax; Michael J. Newman (2020). "New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus". Journal of Paleontology. 94 (4): 773–787. doi:10.1017/jpa.2020.6. S2CID 216191250.
  5. [5]
    H. G. Johnson, D. K. Elliott, and J. H. Wittke. 2000. A new actinolepid arthrodire (Class Placodermi) from the Lower Devonian Sevy Dolomite, east-central Nevada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(2):241-266 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]


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