Leptolepidae
Leptolepidae (also spelt as Leptolepididae) is an extinct family of herring-like stem-teleost fish found throughout the world during the Jurassic. They were among the first fish to possess certain teleost synapomorphies, such as cycloid scales and fully ossified vertebrae.
| Leptolepidae Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil of Leptolepis coryphaenoides | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Leptolepiformes |
| Family: | †Leptolepidae Nicholson & Lydekker, 1889 |
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