Dapedium
| Dapedium Temporal range: Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic
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| Specimen of D. pholidotum, American Museum of Natural History | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Family: | †Dapediidae |
| Genus: | †Dapedium Leach, 1822 |
| Type species | |
| †Dapedium politum Leach, 1822
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Dapedium (from Greek: δαπέδων dapédon, 'pavement') is an genus of deep-bodied ray-finned fish belonging to the extinct family Dapediidae. Dapedium lived in the Late Triassic to the Middle Jurassic period, from the late Norian to the early Aalenian, being one of the most abundant fossil fish found in Early Jurassic deposits in Europe.