Boreolepis

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.

Two species are known:

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

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

References