Boreolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Kungurian to the Wuchiapingian of the Permian period. It inhabited the high northern latitudes in what is now Greenland and European Russia.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Boreolepididae Aldinger, 1937 |
| Genus: | †Boreolepis Aldinger, 1937 |
| Type species | |
| †Boreolepis jenseni Aldinger, 1937
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Two species are known:[5]
- B. jenseni Aldinger, 1937 - Late Cisuralian (Kungurian) to Roadian of Russia, Wuchiapingian of Greenland (Clavering Island)
- B. tataricus Esin, 1996 - Late Capitanian/Early Wuchiapingian of Russia
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Romano, Carlo; Koot, Martha B.; Kogan, Ilja; Brayard, Arnaud; Minikh, Alla V.; Brinkmann, Winand; Bucher, Hugo; Kriwet, Jürgen (2016). "Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution". Biological Reviews. 91 (1): 106–147. doi:10.1111/brv.12161. PMID 25431138. S2CID 5332637.
- ^ a b Bakaev, A. S. (2020-03-01). "A New Morphotype of Fish Teeth of the Order Eurynotoidiformes (Actinopterygii) from the Upper Permian Deposits of European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 54 (2): 171–179. doi:10.1134/S0031030120020033. ISSN 1555-6174. S2CID 215741602.
- ^ Aldinger, Hermann (1937). "Permische Ganoidfische aus Ostgrönland". Meddelelser om Grønland (in German). 102 (3): 1–392.
- ^ Bakaev, A. S. (2022-10-01). "On the Revision of the Permian Ray-Finned Fishes of European Russia. Part 1". Paleontological Journal. 56 (5): 564–573. doi:10.1134/S0031030122050045. ISSN 1555-6174.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
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