Cleithrolepis
Sign in to saveCleithrolepis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived from the Induan age (Early Triassic epoch) to the Anisian (Middle Triassic) in what is now Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania) and Libya. A species from Late Triassic Germany, C. brueckneri, was also ascribed to Cleithrolepis.
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Cleithrolepis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived from the Induan age (Early Triassic epoch) to the Anisian (Middle Triassic) in what is now Australia (New South Wales, Tasmania) and Libya. A species from Late Triassic Germany, C. brueckneri, was also ascribed to Cleithrolepis.
== Taxonomy == The following species are known: †C. altus Woodward, 1890 - Olenekian (Early Triassic) or Anisian (Middle Triassic) of New South Wales, Australia (Terrigal Formation) †C. granulatus Egerton, 1864 - Induan (Early Triassic) of Tasmania, Australia (Knocklofty Formation) to Anisian of New South Wales, Australia (Terrigal Formation) †C. major Gardiner, 1988 - Anisian of Cyrenaica, Libya (Alma Formation)