Inventory | Paleontology | Scaglie di Paralepidotus ornatus
- Common name
- Scales of Paralepidotus ornatus
- Scientific name
- Paralepidotus ornatus
- Type
- Fossil
Description
Paralepidotus ornatus is a semionotid that is very common in the Noric seas. The most striking feature of this species are the robust parallelepiped-shaped scales and the typically heterocercal tail, typical of the more primitive Triassic fishes.
The arrontodate teeth made Paralepidotus a shredder fish like today's bream.
Scientific Classification
- Domain
- Eukaryota
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Semionotiformes
- Family
- Semionotidae
- Genus
- Paralepidotus
- Species
- ornatus (Agassiz, 1833)
- Scientific name
- Paralepidotus ornatus
Preserved specimen
Fragments containing scales attributable to Paralepidotus ornatus, a semionotid very common in the Noric seas.
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s060-00074
