Morrolepis

Morrolepis; Temporal range: Late Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous; ~163.5–140.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Morrolepis aniscowitchi fossil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Family:	†Coccolepididae
Genus:	†Morrolepis; Kirkland, 1998
Type species
	†Morrolepis schaefferi; Kirkland, 1998
Other species
	†M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891); †M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926);

Morrolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric coccolepidid "palaeoniscoid" ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous epochs in Europe, Asia and North America.^[1]

The type species is Morrolepis schaefferi from the Morrison Formation (Colorado, Utah), measuring approximately 20 centimetres (7.9 in) in length.^[2] The other species were previously referred to the genus Coccolepis.^[1] Including M. andrewsi (Woodward, 1891) from the earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Group, England and M. aniscowitchi (Gorizdor-Kulczycka, 1926) from the late Middle Jurassic-early Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian) Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

References

^ ^a ^b Skrzycka, Roksana (2014). "Revision of two relic actinopterygians from the Middle or Upper Jurassic Karabastau Formation, Karatau Range, Kazakhstan". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 38 (3): 364–390. doi:10.1080/03115518.2014.880267. S2CID 129308632.
^ Kirkland, James Ian (1998). "Morrison fishes". Modern Geology. 22: 503–533.