Acropholis

Acropholis
Temporal range: Wuchiapingian
A. stensioei fossil, Geological Museum, Copenhagen
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Elonichthyiformes
Family: Acrolepididae
Genus: Acropholis
Aldinger, 1937
Type species
A. stensioei
Aldinger, 1937
Species

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Acropholis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the Wuchiapingian age (Lopingian/late Permian epoch) in what is now Greenland and Hesse (Germany).

The following species are known:

  • A. kamensis Esin, 1995
  • A. silantievi Esin and Mashin, 1996
  • A. stensioiei Aldinger, 1937