Ascalabos is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. It contains one species, A. voithii.[1][2] Some authorities synonymize it with Leptolepis.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | †Ascalaboidiformes |
| Family: | †Ascalaboidae |
| Genus: | †Ascalabos Münster, 1839 |
| Species: | †A. voithii
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| †Ascalabos voithii Münster, 1839
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See also
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- ^ Arratia, G. (2016-01-18). "New remarkable Late Jurassic teleosts from southern Germany: Ascalaboidae n. fam., its content, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships". Fossil Record. 19 (1): 31–59. Bibcode:2016FossR..19...31A. doi:10.5194/fr-19-31-2016. ISSN 2193-0066.
- ^ Arratia, Gloria; Schultze, Hans-Peter; Tischlinger, Helmut (2019-01-07). "On a remarkable new species of Tharsis, a Late Jurassic teleostean fish from southern Germany: its morphology and phylogenetic relationships". Fossil Record. 22 (1): 1–23. Bibcode:2019FossR..22....1A. doi:10.5194/fr-22-1-2019. ISSN 2193-0066.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
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