Morrolepis
Extinct genus of fishes
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Morrolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric coccolepidid "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous epochs in Europe, Asia and North America.[1]
| Morrolepis | |
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| Morrolepis schaefferi fossil | |
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| Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Coccolepididae |
| Genus: | †Morrolepis Kirkland, 1998 |
| Type species | |
| †Morrolepis schaefferi Kirkland, 1998 | |
| Other species | |
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The type species is Morrolepis schaefferi from the Morrison Formation (Colorado, Utah), measuring approximately 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length.[2] The other species were previously referred to the genus Coccolepis.[1] Including M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891) from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group, England and M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) from the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
