Leptolepides
sprattiformis Phylum
Chordata, Class Osteichthyes, Subclass Actinopterygii, Infraclass Teleosti,
Order Leptolepiformes, Family Leptolepididae
Geological
Time: Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian Stage
Size: 50
to 62 mm
Fossil
Site: Solnhofen Limestone, Eichscatt, Germany
 Description:
A most displayable multi-plate with 7 well-preserved individuals
and about 5 more incomplete. Leptolepides are common from Solnhofen,
but like the Knightia mortality plates from the Green River Fm.
of Wyoming, are very desirable. The genus already shows all the
characteristics of the true bony fishes, and may represent the early
stages of the developmental route towards herrings of the Clupeiformes,
the Order to which Knightia belongs.
Also
see: Solnhofen Fossils
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