Porolepis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Devonian,
~{{fossilrange|409.1|402.5}}

| image = Reconstruction of Porolepis sp.jpg

| image_caption = Restoration

| taxon = Porolepis

| authority = Woodward, 1891

| type_species = {{extinct}}Porolepis posnaniensis

| type_species_authority = (Kade, 1858)

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision =

• †P. brevis Jarvik, 1937
• †P. elongata Jarvik, 1937
• †P. foxi Johanson et al., 2013
• †P. hefteri Gross, 1935
• †P. kureikensis Vorobyeva, 1963
• †P. siegenensis Gross, 1935
• †P. spitsbergensis Jarvik, 1937
• †P. uralensis Obrutchev, 1938

}}

Porolepis is an extinct genus of porolepiform sarcopterygian fish,{{Cite journal|last1=Mondéjar‐Fernández|first1=Jorge|last2=Friedman|first2=Matt|last3=Giles|first3=Sam|date=2020-05-04|title=Redescription of the cranial skeleton of the Early Devonian (Emsian) sarcopterygian Durialepis edentatus Otto (Dipnomorpha, Porolepiformes)|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1315|journal=Papers in Palaeontology|volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=789–806 |doi=10.1002/spp2.1315|issn=2056-2802|hdl=2027.42/167437|s2cid=218916402 |hdl-access=free}} from the Early Devonian Dniester Series of Ukraine, which is rich in Porolepis remains, and also the Nellen Koepfchen Beds of Germany.{{cite web|url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=34947|title=Fossilworks: Porolepis|website=fossilworks.org|access-date=17 December 2021}}Nessov, 1995. Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: New data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg. 1-156. It lived alongside the dubious lophotrochozoan Macrodontophion.Zborzewsky, Adalbert (1834). Aperçu de recherches, physiques, rationelles sur les nouvelles curiosités Podolie-Volhyniennes et sur leurs rapports géologiques avec les autres localités. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou 7: 224-254, [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ia/bulletindelasoci71834mosk#page/7/mode/1up]. It was first described in 1858Kade, G. (1858) Ueber die devonischen Fischreste cines diluvial Blockes. Meseritz. pp.17-18 but Porolepis was not named as a sufficient species until 1891.A. S. Woodward. (1891) Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2