Coccolepis

Coccolepis
Temporal range: Late Jurassic (Tithonian)
Possible Sinemurian record
Coccolepis bucklandi type specimen
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Coccolepididae
Genus: Coccolepis
Agassiz, 1843
Type species
Coccolepis bucklandi
Agassiz, 1843
Other species
  • C. solnhofensis López-Arbarello and Ebert, 2021
Synonyms

Coccolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish in the family Coccolepididae.[2] Originally including most species within the family, it is now restricted to two species from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany.[3] The holotype of C. bucklandi, designated and described by Louis Agassiz, was thought to be lost but was later rediscovered in Neuchâtel.[4]

Taxonomy[edit]

Coccolepis contains the following species, both from Germany:

  • C. bucklandi Agassiz, 1843
  • C. solnhofensis López-Arbarello and Ebert, 2021

Some species originally referred to Coccolepis were later reallocated to other genera:

The species “Coccolepisaustralis Woodward, 1895 (Late Jurassic of the Talbragar fossil site, Australia) and "Coccolepis" liassica Woodward, 1890 (Early Jurassic of the Jurassic Coast, United Kingdom) are still of uncertain phylogenetic placement.[3]

Coccolepis sp. fossil at the State Natural History Museum, Braunschweig

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Olive, Sébastien; Taverne, Loiuis; López-Arbarello, Adriana (2019). "A new genus of coccolepidid actinopterygian from the Cretaceous Iguanodon- bearing locality of Bernissart, Belgium". Cretaceous Research. 95: 318–335. Bibcode:2019CrRes..95..318O. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.11.020. S2CID 134207366.
  2. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
  3. ^ a b López-Arbarello, Adriana; Ebert, Martin (2021). "Diversity of Coccolepis AGASSIZ, 1843 (Coccolepididae, Chondrostei) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen-Archipelago, Southern Germany". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 66. doi:10.4202/app.00873.2021.
  4. ^ Ebert, Martin; Bapst, Laure; Kölbl-Ebert, Martina; Malvesy, Thierry; López-Arbarello, Adriana (2021). "Coccolepis Agassiz, 1843 (Coccolepididae, Chondrostei) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Archipelago – rediscovery of the type specimen and open questions". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 300 (1): 11–22. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2021/0976. S2CID 234814832.
  5. ^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Sferco, Emilia; Rauhut, Oliver Walter Mischa (2013). "A new genus of coccolepidid fishes (Actinopterygii, Chondrostei) from the continental Jurassic of Patagonia". Palaeontologia Electronica. 16 (1): 7A:23. doi:10.26879/348. hdl:11336/11344.
  6. ^ 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. Bibcode:2014Alch...38..364S. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.880267. S2CID 129308632.