Osteolepididae

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| fossil_range = Devonian

| image = Osteolepis BW.jpg

| image_caption = Life restoration of Osteolepis

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| taxon = Osteolepididae

| authority = Cope, 1889

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text

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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. Some of the genera historically placed in Osteolepididae have more recently been assigned to the family Megalichthyidae, which appears to be a monophyletic group.

Genera

Below is a list of genera regarded as osteolepidids at some point:

{{Extinct}}Chrysolepis {{Small|(Reassigned to the monotypic family Chrysolepididae)}}
{{Extinct}}Ectosteorhachis {{Small|(Reassigned to the family Megalichthyidae)}}
{{Extinct}}Geptolepis
{{Extinct}}Glyptopomus
{{Extinct}}Gogonasus
{{Extinct}}Greiserolepis
{{Extinct}}Gyroptychius
{{Extinct}}"Diplopterus" {{Small|(Junior homonym; reassigned to the family Tristichopteridae and renamed to Heddleichthys)}}
{{Extinct}}Kenichthys
{{Extinct}}Latvius
{{Extinct}}Medoevia {{Small|(Reassigned to the monotypic family Medoevididae)}}
{{Extinct}}Megalichthys {{Small|(Reassigned to the family Megalichthyidae)}}
{{Extinct}}Megapomus
{{Extinct}}Megistolepis
{{Extinct}}Muranjilepis
{{Extinct}}Osteolepis
{{Extinct}}Peregrina
{{Extinct}}Shirolepis
{{Extinct}}Thursius {{Small|(Reassigned to the monotypic family Thursiidae)}}

References

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{{cite book |last1=Borgen |first1=U. J. |last2=Nakrem |first2=H. A. |title=Morphology, phylogeny and taxonomy of osteolepiform fish |date=2016 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=[Chichester, West Sussex, UK] |isbn=978-1119286431}}

{{cite journal |last1=Clement |first1=A. M. |last2=Cloutier |first2=R. |last3=Lu |first3=J. |last4=Perilli |first4=E. |last5=Maksimenko |first5=A. |last6=Long |first6=J. |title=A fresh look at Cladarosymblema narrienense, a tetrapodomorph fish (Sarcopterygii: Megalichthyidae) from the Carboniferous of Australia, illuminated via X-ray tomography |journal=PeerJ |date=2021 |volume=9 |pages=e12597 |doi=10.7717/peerj.12597|pmid=34966593 |pmc=8667741 |doi-access=free }}

{{cite journal |last1=Long |first1=J. A. |title=A New Osteolepidid Fish from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia |journal=Records of the Western Australian Museum |date=1985 |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=361–377 |url=https://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/A%20NEW%20OSTEOLEPIDID%20FISH%20FROM%20THE%20UPPER%20DEVONIAN%20GOGO%20FORMATION,%20WESTERN%20AUSTRALIA.pdf}}

{{cite journal |last1=Snitting |first1=D. |title=Heddleichthys - a new tristichopterid genus from the Dura Den Formation, Midland Valley, Scotland (Famennian, Late Devonian) |journal=Acta Zoologica |date=2009 |volume=90 |pages=273–284 |doi=10.1111/j.1463-6395.2008.00376.x}}

{{cite journal |last1=Young |first1=G. C. |last2=Schultze |first2=H.-P. |title=New osteichthyans (bony fishes) from the Devonian of Central Australia |journal=Fossil Record |date=2005 |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=13–35 |doi=10.1002/mmng.200410002|doi-access=free |bibcode=2005FossR...8...13Y }}

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Category:Tetrapodomorph families

Category:Devonian sarcopterygians

Category:Devonian first appearances

Category:Devonian extinctions

Category:Paraphyletic groups

Category:Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope