Ligulalepis
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| Ligulalepis Temporal range: | |
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| Skull of Ligulalepis toombsi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Osteichthyes |
| Genus: | †Ligulalepis Schultze 1968 |
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| †Ligulalepis toombsi Schultze 1968 | |
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Ligulalepis is an extinct genus of stem-osteichthyans which lived from the Silurian to the Early Devonian.[1] Ligulalepis was first described from isolated scales found in the Taemas-Wee jasper limestones of New South Wales (Emsian age) by Hans-Peter Schultze (1968)[2] and further material described by Burrow (1994).[3] A nearly complete skull found in the same general location was described in Nature by Basden et al. (2000) claiming the genus was closely related to basal ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii).[4] In 2015 Flinders University student Benedict King found a more complete new skull of this genus which was formally described by Clement et al. (2018), showing Ligulalepis to be on the stem of all osteichthyans.[5]
