Porolepis is an extinct genus of porolepiform sarcopterygian fish, from the Early Devonian Dniester Series of Ukraine, which is rich in Porolepis remains, and also the Nellen Koepfchen Beds of Germany.Nessov, 1995. Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: New data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography. Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg. 1-156. It lived alongside the dubious lophotrochozoan Macrodontophion.Zborzewsky, Adalbert (1834). Aperçu de recherches, physiques, rationelles sur les nouvelles curiosités Podolie-Volhyniennes et sur leurs rapports géologiques avec les autres localités. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou 7: 224-254, . It was first described in 1858Kade, G. (1858) Ueber die devonischen Fischreste cines diluvial Blockes. Meseritz. pp.17-18 but Porolepis was not named as a sufficient species until 1891.A. S. Woodward. (1891) Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2

See also

Sarcopterygii List of sarcopterygians List of prehistoric bony fish

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