Helmolepis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Platysiagiformes |
Family: | † Platysiagidae |
Genus: | †
Helmolepis Stensiö, 1932 |
Type species | |
†Helmolepis gracilis Stensiö, 1932
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Other species | |
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Helmolepis is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland, Madagascar and Canada ( British Columbia). [1] [2] [3] [4] Species of Helmolepis are small (between 5 centimetres (0.16 ft) and 8 centimetres (0.26 ft)). This genus is closely related with Platysiagum.
Helmolepis Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Platysiagiformes |
Family: | † Platysiagidae |
Genus: | †
Helmolepis Stensiö, 1932 |
Type species | |
†Helmolepis gracilis Stensiö, 1932
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Other species | |
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Helmolepis is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland, Madagascar and Canada ( British Columbia). [1] [2] [3] [4] Species of Helmolepis are small (between 5 centimetres (0.16 ft) and 8 centimetres (0.26 ft)). This genus is closely related with Platysiagum.