Asialepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Ladinian stage of the Middle Triassic epoch. It contains a single species, A. shingyiensis, from Guizhou, China.[1][2]

Asialepidotus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic[1]
A. shingyiensis fossil, National Taiwan Museum
Fossil assigned to A. sp., National Taiwan Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Halecomorphi
Order: Ionoscopiformes
Genus: Asialepidotus
Su, 1959
Species:
A. shingyiensis
Binomial name
Asialepidotus shingyiensis
Su, 1959

Its affinities have long been controversial, although it is known to be a very distant relative of extant bowfin in the clade Halecomorphi. It was initially placed with the bowfins in Amiiformes, then Parasemionotiformes, then the paraphyletic group Panxianichthyiformes. More recent morphological studies have supported it being an early ionoscopiform.[3][4]

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-10.
  3. ^ Zuoyu, Sun; Tintori, Andrea; Yaozhong, Xu; Lombardo, Cristina; Peigang, Ni; Dayong, Jiang (2017-03-04). "A new non-parasemionotiform order of the Halecomorphi (Neopterygii, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of Tethys". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (3): 223–240. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1181679. ISSN 1477-2019.
  4. ^ Xu, Guang-Hui; Ma, Xi-Ying (2018). "Redescription and phylogenetic reassessment of Asialepidotus shingyiensis (Holostei: Halecomorphi) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China". academic.oup.com. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx105. Retrieved 2024-03-10.