Callipurbeckia
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- Callipurbeckiidae
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- Lepidotes notopterus.jpg
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- Callipurbeckia
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- 150000000-
- end time
- 125000000-
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Callipurbeckia is an extinct genus of marine semionotiform ray-finned fish from the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods. Fossils have been found in Germany, Tanzania, and England.
It contains three species, which were previously classified in the related lepisosteiform genus Lepidotes. C. minor (Agassiz, 1833) - Earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) of England (Purbeck Beds) C. notopterus (Agassiz, 1835) - Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Germany (Solnhofen Limestone) C. tendaguruensis (Arratia & Schultze, 1999) - Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of Tanzania (Tendaguru Formation)
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