Name: Leptolepis.
Meaning: Thin scale.
Grouping: Fish,
Actinopterygian, Teleost,
Leptolepiform, Leptolepid.
Informal ID: Extinct 'herring'
Fossil size: Head-tail length
8cm/3iin
Reconstructed size: Head-tail
length up to 25cm/10in.
Habitat: Warm coastal seas.
Time span: Middle Triassic to
Late Cretaceous, 230-80
million years ago.
Ma.in fossil sites.Europe,
Africa, North America,
Australia.
Occurrence: •••