Coccolepis
| Coccolepis Temporal range: Possible Sinemurian record | |
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| Coccolepis bucklandi type specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Coccolepididae |
| Genus: | †Coccolepis Agassiz, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Coccolepis bucklandi Agassiz, 1843 | |
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Coccolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish in the family Coccolepididae. Originally including most species within the family, it is now restricted to two species from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. The holotype of C. bucklandi, designated and described by Louis Agassiz, was thought to be lost but was later rediscovered in Neuchâtel.
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