Apedolepis

Genus of jawless fishes

Apedolepis
Temporal range: Upper Ordovician (Caradoc)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Pteraspidomorphi
Order:
Arandaspida
Genus:
Apedolepis

Young, 1997
Species
  • A. tomlinsonae Young 1997

Apedolepis (meaning "flat scale", from Greek ἄπεδοςi, apedos, meaning 'even', 'flat', or 'level' and λεπίς, meaning 'scale') was an extinct genus of early jawless fish known from the Ordovician Stokes Formation of central Australia.[1] All existing material was collected in the Areyonga Creek section of the eastern Gardiner Range.[1] Apedolepis is known solely from scales, with the type specimen (CPC 33630) consisting of a single scale.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Young, G. C. (1997-04-16). "Ordovician microvertebrate remains from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10010948. ISSN 0272-4634.
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Apedolepis


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