Erepsilepis
| Erepsilepis Temporal range: Early Silurian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Infraphylum: | Agnatha |
| Class: | †Thelodonti |
| Order: | †Phlebolepidiformes |
| Family: | †Phlebolepididae |
| Genus: | †Erepsilepis |
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Erepsilepis is an extinct thelodont agnathan genus in the family Phlebolepididae.[1]
Scales of Erepsilepis are robust and abrasion-resistant, at least on one side of the body. Sharks which live among rough substrates such as rocky caves or reefs have abrasion-resistant scales across their entire body, while those which forage on soft sandy or muddy substrates tend to concentrate these kinds of scales on their belly.[2][3]
See also
References
- ^ Märss, Tiiu; Wilson, Mark V. H.; Thorsteinsson, Raymond (2002). "New thelodont (Agnatha) and possible chondrichthyan (Gnathostomata) taxa established in the Silurian and Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago". Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology. 51 (2): 88–120. doi:10.3176/geol.2002.2.02. S2CID 240195967.
- ^ Ferrón, Humberto G.; Botella, Héctor (2017). "Squamation and ecology of thelodonts". PLOS ONE. 12 (2) e0172781. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1272781F. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172781. PMC 5328365. PMID 28241029.
- ^ Ferrón, Humberto G; Martínez-Pérez, Carlos; Turner, Susan; Manzanares, Esther; Botella, Héctor (2018). "Patterns of ecological diversification in thelodonts" (PDF). Palaeontology. 61 (2): 303–315. doi:10.1111/pala.12347. hdl:10550/85568.
External links
- Data related to Erepsilepis at Wikispecies
- "Erepsilepis". The Encyclopedia of Life.