Porolepis

Porolepis
Temporal range: Early Devonian,
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Restoration
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Sarcopterygii
Order: †Porolepiformes
Family: †Porolepididae
Genus: †Porolepis
Woodward, 1891
Type species
†Porolepis posnaniensis
(Kade, 1858)
Other species
  • †P. brevis Jarvik, 1937
  • †P. elongata Jarvik, 1937
  • †P. foxi Johanson et al., 2013
  • †P. hefteri Gross, 1935
  • †P. kureikensis Vorobyeva, 1963
  • †P. siegenensis Gross, 1935
  • †P. spitsbergensis Jarvik, 1937
  • †P. uralensis Obrutchev, 1938

Porolepis is an extinct genus of porolepiform sarcopterygian fish, from the Early Devonian Dniester Series of Ukraine, which is rich in Porolepis remains, and also the Nellen Koepfchen Beds of Germany. It lived alongside the dubious lophotrochozoan Macrodontophion. It was first described in 1858 but Porolepis was not named as a sufficient species until 1891.

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