Aulolepis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|97|89.8|Middle Cenomanian-Late Turonian<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{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 }}</ref>}} | image = Aulolepis (36908826841).jpg | image_caption = Specimen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History | genus = Aulolepis | parent_authority = Agassiz, 1844 | species = typus | authority = Agassiz, 1844<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Murray |first1=Alison M. |title=Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada |journal=Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology |date=2014 |volume=1 |pages=101–115 |doi=10.18435/B5CC78 |doi-access=free }}</ref> }}

'''''Aulolepis''''' (from {{langx|el|ανλος}} {{Transliteration|el|aulos}}, 'pipe' and {{langx|el|λεπίς}} {{Transliteration|el|lepis}} 'scale')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=George |title=An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and language of geology |date=1839 |publisher=Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans |location=London |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/anetymologicala00robegoog |access-date=29 December 2021 |language=English}}</ref> is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the middle Cenomanian to the late Turonian. It contains a single species, '''''A. typus''''' from the Chalk Group of the United Kingdom and the Hesseltal Formation of Germany.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Hunt |first1=Adrian P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C_MoCgAAQBAJ |title=Vertebrate Coprolites: Bulletin 57 |last2=Milàn |first2=Jesper |last3=Lucas |first3=Spencer G. |last4=Spielmann |first4=Justin A. |date=2012 |publisher=New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Amalfitano |first1=Jacopo |last2=Giusberti |first2=Luca |last3=Fornaciari |first3=Eliana |last4=Carnevale |first4=Giorgio |date=2020-04-03 |title=UPPER CENOMANIAN FISHES FROM THE BONARELLI LEVEL (OAE2) OF NORTHEASTERN ITALY |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/13224 |journal=Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia |language=en |volume=126 |issue=2 |doi=10.13130/2039-4942/13224 |issn=2039-4942}}</ref>

It is generally classified as a member of the Ctenothrissiformes, a group of basal mid-Cretaceous acanthomorphs.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dornburg |first=Alex |last2=Townsend |first2=Jeffrey P. |last3=Friedman |first3=Matt |last4=Near |first4=Thomas J. |date=2014-08-08 |title=Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times |url=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0 |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=169 |doi=10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0 |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=4236503 |pmid=25103329 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35601 |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> However, one as-of-yet unpublished study has found it to be an aulopiform instead.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Delbarre |first=Daniel J. |date=2015 |title=Anatomy and relationships of †''Aulolepis'' (†Ctenothrissiformes: †Aulolepidae): Implications for deep divergences within eurypterygian fishes |url=https://www.palaeosoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2015-Notice-of-AGM-and-newsletter-31.pdf |journal=Palaeontographical Society ResearchFund Reports |pages=3–4}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Ctenothrissiformes Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Late Cretaceous bony fish Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe Category:Fossils of England Category:Fossils of Germany Category:Cenomanian genus first appearances Category:Turonian genus extinctions Category:Taxa named by Louis Agassiz Category:Fossil taxa described in 1844