Glyptolepis (fish)
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''Glyptolepis'' is an extinct
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
porolepiform Porolepiformes is an order of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Devonian period (about 416 to 359 million years ago). They are thought to represent the sister group to lungfish (class Dipnoi). The group contains two families: Ho ...
lobe-finned fish Sarcopterygii (; )—sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii ()—is a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) of vertebrate animals which includes a group of bony fish commonly referred to as lobe-finned fish. These vertebrates ar ...
which lived during
Devonian Period The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago ( Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding C ...
, from the early
Eifelian The Eifelian is the first of two faunal stages in the Middle Devonian Epoch. It lasted from 393.3 ± 1.2 million years ago to 387.7 ± 0.8 million years ago. It was preceded by the Emsian Stage and followed by the Givetian Stage. North American ...
to
Frasnian The Frasnian is one of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Period. It lasted from million years ago to million years ago. It was preceded by the Givetian Stage and followed by the Famennian Stage. Major reef-building was under way during ...
Age Age or AGE may refer to: Time and its effects * Age, the amount of time someone has been alive or something has existed ** East Asian age reckoning, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1 * Ageing or aging, the process of becoming older ...
. Species include '' Glyptolepis baltica, Glyptolepis groenlandica,'' and ''Glyptolepis leptopterus''. ''Glyptolepis'' is considered a stem lungfish, and its pectoral fins especially resemble those of the extant lungfish ''
Neoceratodus ''Neoceratodus'' is a genus of lungfish in the family Neoceratodontidae. The extant Australian lungfish (''Neoceratodus forsteri'') is the only surviving member of this genus, but it was formerly much more widespread, being distributed throughout ...
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Porolepiformes Prehistoric lobe-finned fish genera Middle Devonian sarcopterygians Late Devonian sarcopterygians Devonian sarcopterygians of Europe Fossil taxa described in 1841 Fossils of Russia {{paleo-lobefinned-fish-stub