Enchelyolepis
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Enchelyolepis (meaning "eel-like scale") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Europe.[1][2] It was a member of the Macrosemiidae, a family of ginglymodians distantly related to modern gars, and contains two species that were both previously described as species of Macrosemius.[3]
The following species are known:[4]
- †E. andrewsi (Woodward, 1895) (type species) - Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) of England (middle Purbeck Group)[5]
- †E. pectoralis (Sauvage, 1883) - Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of France (Portland Group)[6]
Both species were very small for their order, with E. andrewsi being only Script error: No such module "convert". in length.[4]
See also
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- Macrosemiiformes
- Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
- Tithonian genus first appearances
- Berriasian genus extinctions
- Late Jurassic fish of Europe
- Early Cretaceous fish of Europe
- Early Cretaceous bony fish
- Late Jurassic bony fish
- Fossils of England
- Fossils of France
- Fossil taxa described in 1918
- Taxa named by Arthur Smith Woodward