Ascalabos
Ascalabos Temporal range:
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Fossil of A. voithii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | †Ascalaboidiformes |
Family: | †Ascalaboidae |
Genus: | †Ascalabos Münster, 1839 |
Species: | †A. voithii
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Binomial name | |
†Ascalabos voithii Münster, 1839
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Ascalabos is an extinct genus of marine
ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. It contains one species, A. voithii.[1][2] Some authorities synonymize it with Leptolepis.[3]