Crenilepis

Crenilepis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Colobodontidae
Genus: Crenilepis
Dames, 1888
Species:
C. sandbergeri
Binomial name
Crenilepis sandbergeri
Dames, 1888
Synonyms
  • Crenolepis Carus, 1888
  • Crenilepoides Strand, 1929

Crenilepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived in the seas of present-day Europe during the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, C. sandbergi from the Anisian of Germany, Spain, and the Besano Formation of the Swiss-Italian border.