Porolepis is an extinct genus of porolepiform sarcopterygian fish,[1] from the Early Devonian Dniester Series of Ukraine, which is rich in Porolepis remains, and also the Nellen Koepfchen Beds of Germany.[2][3] It lived alongside the dubious lophotrochozoan Macrodontophion.[4] It was first described in 1858[5] but Porolepis was not named as a sufficient species until 1891.[6]

Porolepis
Temporal range: Early Devonian,
~409.1–402.5 Ma
Restoration
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Porolepis

Woodward, 1891
Binomial name
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

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References edit

  1. ^ Mondéjar‐Fernández, Jorge; Friedman, Matt; Giles, Sam (2020-05-04). "Redescription of the cranial skeleton of the Early Devonian (Emsian) sarcopterygian Durialepis edentatus Otto (Dipnomorpha, Porolepiformes)". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (2): 789–806. doi:10.1002/spp2.1315. hdl:2027.42/167437. ISSN 2056-2802. S2CID 218916402.
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Porolepis". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ Nessov, 1995. Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: New data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg. 1-156.
  4. ^ Zborzewsky, Adalbert (1834). Aperçu de recherches, physiques, rationelles sur les nouvelles curiosités Podolie-Volhyniennes et sur leurs rapports géologiques avec les autres localités. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou 7: 224-254, [1].
  5. ^ Kade, G. (1858) Ueber die devonischen Fischreste cines diluvial Blockes. Meseritz. pp.17-18
  6. ^ A. S. Woodward. (1891) Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2