Osteolepididae is a family of primitive, fish-like tetrapodomorphs (the clade that contains modern tetrapods and their extinct relatives) that lived during the Devonian period. The family is generally thought to be paraphyletic, with the traits that characterise the family being widely distributed among basal tetrapodomorphs and other osteichthyans.[1] Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.[2]
| Osteolepididae Temporal range: Devonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Sarcopterygii |
| Clade: | Tetrapodomorpha |
| Order: | †Osteolepiformes |
| Family: | †Osteolepididae Cope, 1889 |
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Genera
editBelow is a list of genera regarded as osteolepidids at some point:[1]
- †Chrysolepis (Reassigned to the monotypic family Chrysolepididae)[3]
- †Ectosteorhachis (Reassigned to the family Megalichthyidae)[2]
- †Geptolepis[3]
- †Glyptopomus
- †Gogonasus
- †Greiserolepis[3]
- †Gyroptychius
- †"Diplopterus"[2] (Junior homonym; reassigned to the family Tristichopteridae and renamed to Heddleichthys)[4]
- †Kenichthys[5]
- †Latvius
- †Medoevia[2] (Reassigned to the monotypic family Medoevididae)[3]
- †Megalichthys (Reassigned to the family Megalichthyidae)[2]
- †Megapomus
- †Megistolepis
- †Muranjilepis[5]
- †Osteolepis
- †Peregrina[3]
- †Shirolepis[3]
- †Thursius (Reassigned to the monotypic family Thursiidae)[3]
References
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- ^ a b Long, J. A. (1985). "A New Osteolepidid Fish from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia" (PDF). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 12 (3): 361–377.
- ^ a b c d e Clement, A. M.; Cloutier, R.; Lu, J.; Perilli, E.; Maksimenko, A.; Long, J. (2021). "A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography". PeerJ. 9: e12597. doi:10.7717/peerj.12597. PMC 8667741. PMID 34966593.
- ^ a b c d e f g Borgen, U. J.; Nakrem, H. A. (2016). Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of osteolepiform fish. [Chichester, West Sussex, UK]: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1119286431.
- ^ Snitting, D. (2009). "Heddleichthys - a new tristichopterid genus from the Dura Den Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland (Famennian, Late Devonian)". Acta Zoologica. 90: 273–284. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00376.x.
- ^ a b Young, G. C.; Schultze, H.-P. (2005). "New osteichthyans (bony fishes) from the Devonian of Central Australia". Fossil Record. 8 (1): 13–35. Bibcode:2005FossR...8...13Y. doi:10.1002/mmng.200410002.
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