Leptolepides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Tithonian}}

| image = Leptolepides sprattiformes.jpg

| image_caption =

| taxon = Leptolepides

| authority = Nybelin, 1974

| type_species = Leptolepides sprattiformis

| type_species_authority = Blainville, 1818

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = * Leptolepides sprattiformis Blainville, 1818

• Leptolepides haerteisi Arratia, 1997

| synonyms = *Clupea sprattiformis Blainville, 1818

}}

File:Aspidorhynchus and Leptolepides.jpg]]

Leptolepides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the early Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic epoch.{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}