Austropleuropholis

Austropleuropholis
Temporal range: Early Toarcian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pleuropholidae
Genus: Austropleuropholis
de Saint Seine, 1955
Species:
A. lombardi
Binomial name
Austropleuropholis lombardi
de Saint Seine, 1955

Austropleuropholis is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the early Toarcian stage of the Early Jurassic epoch.[1] It contains a single species, A. lombardi, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  3. ^ "New data on Pleuropholis decastroi (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae), a "pholidophoriform" fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Eurafrican Mesogea". ricerca.unich.it. Retrieved 2024-02-26.