Lycopteridae

Lycopteridae Temporal range: from Jurassic to Cretaceous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Lycoptera species from China
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Cohort:	Osteoglossomorpha
Order:	†Lycopteriformes
Family:	†Lycopteridae Liu, Su, Huang & Chang, 1963

Lycopteridae is an extinct family of freshwater osteoglossomorph ray-finned fishes.

• Lycoptera Müller, 1848
• Aokiichthys Yabumoto 1994
• Changichthys Su 1991
• Yungkangichthys Chang and Chou 1974

These ray-finned fishes were small, often only a finger's length, with small, almost circular scales.

They occurred in East Asian rivers and lakes from the Jurassic to Cretaceous. Fossils of these fishes have been found in China and Japan.

• Arno Hermann Müller: Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie. Band III, Vertebraten, Teil 1. Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985
• Joseph S. Nelson: Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7
• V.N. Yakovlev Systematics of the family Lycopteridae International Geology Review - Volume 8, Issue 1, 1966

• Media related to Lycopteridae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Lycopteridae at Wikispecies
• The Paleobiology Database
• Helsinki.fi

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