Lepidotes are a large group of extinct fishes that comes under semionotid neopterygian ray-finned fish genus. They belonged to the water of Jurassic period to early Cretaceous period. Inhabiting both freshwater lakes and shallow water seas'. They were 30cm long and were covered with thick enameled scales and batteries of Peg - like teeth. Lepidotes were one of the earliest fish in which the upper jawbones were no longer attached to the jugal bone. This helped the jaws to be stretched like tube so that; it can swallow its prey. The very same system is found in modern fishes like Carp.
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