Osteichthyes - Teleostei - Leptolepididae
PaleoDB taxon number: 35266
Synonyms: Ascalabos Münster 1839 (no. 99547), Megastoma Costa 1850 (no. 99549), Oxygonius Agassiz 1845 (no. 99840), Sarginites Costa 1850 (no. 99548), Tharsis Giebel 1848 (no. 35302)
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (livr. 18). Imprimerie de Petitpierre, Neuchatel xxxii-188
Parent taxon: Leptolepididae according to G. Arratia 2017
Sister taxa: Longileptolepis, Lycoptera, Proleptolepis
Subtaxa: Leptolepis africana, Leptolepis autissiodorensis, Leptolepis brodiei, Leptolepis concentricus, Leptolepis coryphaenoides, Leptolepis disjectus, Leptolepis gregarius, Leptolepis jaegeri, Leptolepis koonwarri, Leptolepis lowei, Leptolepis macrophthalmus, Leptolepis nevadensis, Leptolepis normandica, Leptolepis saltviciensis, Leptolepis talbragarensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore