Pleuropholidae

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

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| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Middle Jurassic|Early Cretaceous}}

| image = Pleuropholis sp. (JME-ETT2980).jpg

| image_caption = Fossil of Pleuropholis sp.

| taxon = Pleuropholidae

| authority = Saint-Seine, 1949

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Pleuropholidae is an extinct family of stem-teleost fish that lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. It is one of several families that were historically placed in the paraphyletic order Pholidophoriformes. Pleuropholids can be distinguished from other "pholidophoriforms" by the elongated scales on the sides of their bodies.

Taxonomy

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Brito |first1=P. M |last2=Gallo |first2=V. |title=A new pleuropholid, Gondwanapleuropholis longimaxillaris n. g., n. sp. (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Jurassic of north east Brazil |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |date=2002 |volume=1 |issue=8 |pages=697–703 |doi=10.1016/S1631-0683(02)00080-5|bibcode=2002CRPal...1..697B }}

{{cite journal |last1=Giordano |first1=P. G. |last2=Succar |first2=C. A. |last3=Codorniú |first3=L. |last4=Cione |first4=A. L. |last5=Arratia |first5=G. |title=Zurupleuropholis gen. nov. (Teleostei, Albian, Argentina), first pleuropholids from the Cretaceous of South America |journal=Cretaceous Research |date=2018 |volume=84 |pages=223–239 |doi=10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.017|bibcode=2018CrRes..84..223G |hdl=11336/91831 |hdl-access=free }}

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{{Teleostei|T.}}

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Category:Middle Jurassic first appearances

Category:Early Cretaceous extinctions

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