Westollia
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| Westollia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Aeduelliformes |
| Family: | †Aeduellidae |
| Genus: | †Westollia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940 |
| Type species | |
| †Lepidopterus crassus (= †Westollia crassa) Pohlig, 1892 | |
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Westollia is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish only known at Gottlob Quarry, from the early Asselian Goldlauter Formation of Thuringia, Germany.[1][2]
The type and only species, Westollia crassa, was first described as Lepidopterus crassus, but because this genus name was preoccupied, a new genus name was given, Westollia, honoring Thomas Stanley Westoll. Redescription and study on the affinities of Westollia crassa was published by Štamberg (2024), who deesignated the complete specimen NHMS-GP1341 as its neotype.[2][3]
