Lepidocoleidae

Lepidocoleidae is a family of polychaetes belonging to the order Phyllodocida.

Lepidocoleidaes have an armor-like exoskeleton that consists of large enclosed mineralized calcite plates with two different crystalline layers with both rugae and growth lines on their external surface.

Genera:
 * Carnicoleus Dzik, 1986
 * Clarkeolepis Elias, 1958
 * Compacoleus Schallreuter, 1985
 * Kerrycoleus Prokop, 2002
 * Lepidocoleus Faber, 1886
 * Sokolophocoleus Pope, 1960
 * Turrilepas Woodward, 1865