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Lepidocottus

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Extinct genus of fishes

Lepidocottus
Temporal range: Upper Oligocene Preκž’ κž’ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Eleotridae
Genus: †Lepidocottus
Sauvage, 1875
Type species
Lepidocottus aries
Sauvage, 1875

Lepidocottus is a genus of gobies that lived in what is now southern France in the uppermost Oligocene, 24 to 23 million years ago.

References

  1. Gierl C, Reichenbacher B, Gaudant J, Erpenbeck D, Pharisat A (2013). "An Extraordinary Gobioid Fish Fossil from Southern France". PLOS ONE. 8 (5): e64117. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064117. PMC 3655028. PMID 23691158. e64117.
Taxon identifiers
Lepidocottus


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