Ascalabos

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Tithonian}}

| image = Ascalabos voithii NT (C)M.Ebert.jpg

| image_caption = Fossil of A. voithii

| parent_authority = Münster, 1839

| taxon = Ascalabos voithii

| authority = Münster, 1839

}}

Ascalabos is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. It contains one species, A. voithii.{{Cite journal |last=Arratia |first=G. |date=2016-01-18 |title=New remarkable Late Jurassic teleosts from southern Germany: Ascalaboidae n. fam., its content, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships |url=https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/19/31/2016/ |journal=Fossil Record |language=English |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=31–59 |doi=10.5194/fr-19-31-2016 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016FossR..19...31A |issn=2193-0066}}{{Cite journal |last1=Arratia |first1=Gloria |last2=Schultze |first2=Hans-Peter |last3=Tischlinger |first3=Helmut |date=2019-01-07 |title=On a remarkable new species of Tharsis, a Late Jurassic teleostean fish from southern Germany: its morphology and phylogenetic relationships |url=https://fr.copernicus.org/articles/22/1/2019/ |journal=Fossil Record |language=English |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.5194/fr-22-1-2019 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2019FossR..22....1A |issn=2193-0066}} Some authorities synonymize it with Leptolepis.{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35266&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=paleobiodb.org}}