Helmolepis

Helmolepis
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Platysiagiformes
Family: Platysiagidae
Genus: Helmolepis
Stensiö, 1932
Type species
Helmolepis gracilis
Stensiö, 1932
Other species
  • H. cyphognatha Neuman & Mutter, 2005
  • H. manis Mutter, 2005

Helmolepis is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland, Madagascar and Canada (British Columbia). Species of Helmolepis are small (between 5 centimetres (0.16 ft) and 8 centimetres (0.26 ft)). This genus is closely related with Platysiagum.