Aphnelepis Explained

Aphnelepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic epoch.^{[1] [2] [3]} It contains a single species, A. australis, from the Talbragar River beds of New South Wales, Australia.^{[4] [5]}

Initially described as a "semionotiform", it is now generally recovered as a basal teleostean related to the sympatric Archaeomaene. Some studies classify it in its own family, Aphnelepidae, which is sister to Aetheolepis, with both families together being sister to Archaeomaenidae.^[6] However, Aphnelepidae is considered synonymous with Archaeomaenidae by other authorities.^[7]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
2. Web site: PBDB . 2024-02-28 . paleobiodb.org.
3. L. B. Bean . The leptolepid fish Cavenderichthys talbragarensis (Woodward, 1895) from the Talbragar Fish Bed (Late Jurassic) near Gulgong, New South Wales Western Australian Museum . en . 2024-05-06 . museum.wa.gov.au.
4. Bean . Lynne B. . 2017 . Reappraisal of Mesozoic fishes and associated invertebrates and flora from Talbragar and Koonwarra, eastern Australia . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria . en . 129 . 1 . 7–20 . 10.1071/rs17001 . 2204-1362. free .
5. Bean . L. B. . 2021 . Revision of the Mesozoic freshwater fish clade Archaeomaenidae . Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology . 45 . 2 . 217–259 . 10.1080/03115518.2021.1937700 . 237518065.
6. Taverne . Louis . 2011 . Ostéologie et relations phylogénétiques de Steurbautichthys ("Pholidophophorus") aequatorialis gen. nov. (Teleostei, "Pholidophoriformes") du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani, en République Démocratique du Congo. . Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique - Bulletin van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen . 81 . 129–173.
7. Laan . Richard van der . 2018-10-11 . Family-group names of fossil fishes . European Journal of Taxonomy . en . 466 . 10.5852/ejt.2018.466 . 2118-9773.