Leptolepidae (also spelt as Leptolepididae)[3] is an extinct family of herring-like stem-teleost fish found throughout the world during the Jurassic.

They were among the first fish to possess certain teleost synapomorphies, such as cycloid scales and fully ossified vertebrae.

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