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Lepidotes sp.

Lepidotes is an extinct genus of semionotid actinopterygians, which has usually been considered as a genus that encompassed many species of the Mesozoic order Lepisosteiformes, although more recent revisions have restricted it to the Jurassic (Toarcian) period.
Of these they have also been found in the Quinchamale formation, Antofagasta Region, Middle Jurassic of Chile.
Ossa-Fuentes, L., Soto-Acuña, S., Otero, R., Rojas, O. y Alarcón, J. (2015). Nuevos ejemplares de peces óseos (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii) del Jurásico Superior de Cerritos Bayos, Calama, norte de Chile. XIV Congreso Geológico Chileno, pp. 694-697.