Boreolepis

For the Triassic ray-finned fish, see Boreosomus.

Boreolepis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the Late Kungurian to the Wuchiapingian of the Permian period. It inhabited the high northern latitudes in what is now Greenland and European Russia.^[1][2][3][4]

Boreolepis Temporal range: Kungurian to Wuchiapingian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Family:	†Boreolepididae Aldinger, 1937
Genus:	†Boreolepis Aldinger, 1937
Type species
†Boreolepis jenseni Aldinger, 1937
Other species[2]
†Boreolepis tataricus Esin, 1996

Two species are known:^[5]

• Boreolepis jenseni Aldinger, 1937 - Late Cisuralian (Kungurian) to Roadian of Russia, Wuchiapingian of Greenland (Clavering Island)
• Boreolepis tataricus Esin, 1996 - Late Capitanian/Early Wuchiapingian of Russia

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish