Porolepis

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 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sarcopterygii
Order:	†Porolepiformes
Genus:	†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

See also

• Sarcopterygii
• List of sarcopterygians
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References

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. doi:10.1002/spp2.1315. ISSN 2056-2802.
2. "Fossilworks: Porolepis". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
3. Nessov, 1995. Dinosaurs of nothern 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, .
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