Boreolepis
| Boreolepis Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Boreolepididae Aldinger, 1937 |
| Genus: | †Boreolepis Aldinger, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| †Boreolepis jenseni Aldinger, 1937 | |
| Other species | |
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Boreolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Kungurian to the Wuchiapingian of the Permian period. It inhabited the high northern latitudes in what is now Greenland and European Russia.
Two species are known:
- Boreolepis jenseni Aldinger, 1937 - Late Cisuralian (Kungurian) to Roadian of Russia, Wuchiapingian of Greenland (Clavering Island)
- Boreolepis tataricus Esin, 1996 - Late Capitanian/Early Wuchiapingian of Russia