Name: Lepidotes.
Meaning: Covered with
scales, scaly.
Grouping: Fish,
Actinopterygian,
Semionotiform, Semionotid.
Informal ID: Ray-finned
cosmopolitan fish.
Fossil size: Scale slab
25cm/10in long.
Reconstructed size:
Head-tail length up to
2m/6~ft.
Habitat: Lakes, shallow
coastal waters.
Time span: Middle Triassic to
Cretaceous, 230-100 million
years ago.
Main fossil sites: Worldwide.
Occurrence: •••