Candelarialepis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|251.902|251.2|Induan}}

| image = Candelarialepis argentus.png

| image_caption = Candelarialepis from the Candelaria Formation of Nevada, USA

| taxon = Candelarialepis

| authority = Romano et al., 2019

| type_species = †Candelarialepis argentus

| type_species_authority = Romano et al., 2019

}}

Candelarialepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Nevada. It contains a single species, C. argentus.{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Carlo |last2=López-Arbarello |first2=Adriana |last3=Ware |first3=David |last4=Jenks |first4=James F. |last5=Brinkmann |first5=Winand |title=Marine Early Triassic Actinopterygii from the Candelaria Hills (Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA). |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=April 2019 |volume=93 |issue=5 |pages=971–1000 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2019.18|bibcode=2019JPal...93..971R |s2cid=155564297 }} It was described from the Candelaria Formation.{{cite journal |last1=Ware|first1=David |last2=Jenks |first2=James F. |last3=Hautmann |first3=Michael |last4=Bucher |first4=Hugo |title=Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Candelaria Hills (Nevada, USA) and their significance for palaeobiogeography and palaeoceanography. |journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences |date=2011 |volume=104 |pages=161–181 |doi=10.1007/s00015-011-0055-3|bibcode=2011SwJG..104..161W |s2cid=129845606 |url=https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/47305/8/ZORA_NL_47305.pdf }}