Leptolepis
| Leptolepis Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
| Fossil specimen, National Museum of Natural History | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Leptolepiformes |
| Family: | †Leptolepidae |
| Genus: | †Leptolepis Agassiz, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Cyprinus coryphaenoides Bronn, 1830 | |
Leptolepis (from Greek: λεπτός leptós, 'slight' and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale') is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish that lived in what is now Europe (Germany, Luxembourg, France, England, Italy and maybe Greece) and North of Africa (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco) during the Jurassic period (Pliensbachian–Callovian ages).