Cryptolepis grossi explained

Cryptolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine lobe-finned fish known from the Late Devonian of what is now eastern Europe.[1] It contains a single species, C. grossi from the middle to late Famennian of Oryol, Russia and Latvia. Scales of this species are particularly common in Devonian localities of Latvia. It was named after paleontologist Walter R. Gross.[2] [3] [4]

It was previously placed in the family Megalichthyidae, but is presently considered an indeterminate "osteolepiform".[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PBDB Taxon . 2024-06-26 . paleobiodb.org.
  2. Lebedev . Oleg . 1995 . Middle Famennian (Upper Devonian)Chondrichthyans and Sarcopterygians from Oryol region; Central Russia . Geobios . en . 28 . 361–368 . 10.1016/S0016-6995(95)80139-1. 1995Geobi..28..361L .
  3. Alksnitis . Valters . 2023 . Pathologies in the fish fossils from the Upper Devonian, Famennian deposits of Latvia . EGU General Assembly 2023 . EGU–7156 . 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-7156. free . 2023EGUGA..25.7156A .
  4. Lukševičs . Ervīns . Alksnītis . Valters . Visotina . Tatjana . 2023 . A Late Devonian sarcopterygian fish assemblage from the Pavāri-2 fossil locality, Latvia . 81st Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia . 37–38.
  5. Clement . Alice M. . Cloutier . Richard . Lu . Jing . Perilli . Egon . Maksimenko . Anton . Long . John . 2021-12-10 . A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography . PeerJ . en . 9 . e12597 . 10.7717/peerj.12597 . free . 34966593 . 8667741 . 2167-8359.

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