Glyptolepis (fish)

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Eifelian|Frasnian|Eifelian to Frasnian}}

| image = Glyptolepis in Vienna.jpg

| image_caption = Glyptolepis fossil from the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

| image2 = Glyptolepis.jpg

| image2_caption = Glyptolepis reconstruction

| taxon = Glyptolepis (fish)

| authority = Egerton, 1841 per Agassiz, 1843

}}

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Glyptolepis is an extinct genus of porolepiform lobe-finned fish which lived during Devonian Period, from the early Eifelian to Frasnian Age.{{cite web|url=http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2014/02/28/underwhelming-fossil-fish-of-the-month-february-2014/|title=Underwhelming fossil fish of the month: February 2014|author=Mark Carnall|date=28 February 2014|work=Museums & Collections Blog|publisher=University College London|access-date=29 September 2015}}{{cite book|author1=Richard Cloutier |author2=Per Erik Ahlberg |name-list-style=amp |editor1=Melanie L.J. Stiassny |editor2=Lynne R. Parenti |editor3=G. David Johnson |title =Interrelationships of Fishes|chapter =Morphology, Characters, and the Interrelationships of Basal Sarcopterygians|year =1996|page=457|publisher=Academic Press |isbn =9780080534923|chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=H20q9rqZENsC&dq=Glyptolepis+genus&pg=PA457}}{{cite journal|author=Per Erik Ahlberg|year=1992|title=A new holoptychiid porolepiform fish from the Upper Frasnian of Elgin, Scotland|journal=Palaeontology|volume=35|issue=4|pages=813–828|url=https://www.academia.edu/434317}} Species include Glyptolepis baltica, Glyptolepis groenlandica, and Glyptolepis leptopterus.{{Cite journal |last=Ahlberg |first=Per Erik |date=June 1989 |title=Paired fin skeletons and relationships of the fossil group Porolepiformes (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii) |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1989.tb01824.x |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |language=en |volume=96 |issue=2 |pages=119–166 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1989.tb01824.x |issn=0024-4082}}{{Cite web |title=Glyptolepis leptopterus |url=https://orkneylandscapes.org/orkney/glyptolepis-leptopterus/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Landscapes of Orkney |language=en-US}}

Glyptolepis is considered a stem lungfish, and its pectoral fins especially resemble those of the extant lungfish Neoceratodus.