Aulolepis
Extinct genus of fishes
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Aulolepis (from Greek: ανλος aulos, 'pipe' and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')[3] is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the middle Cenomanian to the late Turonian. It contains a single species, A. typus from the Chalk Group of the United Kingdom and the Hesseltal Formation of Germany.[1][4][5]
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| Specimen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Ctenothrissiformes |
| Family: | †Aulolepidae |
| Genus: | †Aulolepis Agassiz, 1844 |
| Species: | †A. typus |
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| †Aulolepis typus | |
It is generally classified as a member of the Ctenothrissiformes, a group of basal mid-Cretaceous acanthomorphs.[6][7] However, one as-of-yet unpublished study has found it to be an aulopiform instead.[8]
