Aulolepis

Aulolepis (from Greek: ανλος aulos, 'pipe' and Greek: λεπίς lepis 'scale')^[3] 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.^[1][4][5]

Aulolepis Temporal range: Middle Cenomanian-Late Turonian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Specimen at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	†Ctenothrissiformes
Family:	†Aulolepidae
Genus:	†Aulolepis Agassiz, 1844
Species:	†A. typus
Binomial name
†Aulolepis typus Agassiz, 1844[2]

It is generally classified as a member of the Ctenothrissiformes, a group of basal mid-Cretaceous acanthomorphs.^[6][7] However, one as-of-yet unpublished study has found it to be an aulopiform instead.^[8]