Acropholis
Extinct genus of fishes
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Acropholis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the Wuchiapingian age (Lopingian/late Permian epoch) in what is now Greenland and Hesse (Germany).[2][3]
| Acropholis Temporal range: Wuchiapingian | |
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| A. stensioei fossil, Geological Museum, Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Elonichthyiformes |
| Family: | †Acrolepididae |
| Genus: | †Acropholis Aldinger, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| †A. stensioei Aldinger, 1937 | |
| Species | |
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The following species are known:[1]
- A. kamensis Esin, 1995
- A. silantievi Esin and Mashin, 1996
- A. stensioiei Aldinger, 1937
