Eolophotes
| Eolophotes Temporal range: Middle Eocene, | |
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| E. lenis holotype, scale bar = 5 mm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lampriformes |
| Family: | Lophotidae |
| Genus: | †Eolophotes Daniltshenko, 1980 |
| Species: | †E. lenis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eolophotes lenis (Daniltshenko, 1962) | |
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Eolophotes ("dawn Lophotes") is an extinct genus of prehistoric crestfish that inhabited the northeastern Tethys Ocean during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. lenis, known from the Lutetian-aged Dabakhan Formation of Georgia. It is a diminutive, poorly-known species, but represents the oldest fossil record of the group.[1][2][3] However, Brownstein & Near (2023) found the Lophotidae to be potentially non-monophyletic, and Eolophotes to be a member of the Taeniosomi with uncertain placement.[4]
External links
[edit]- Eolophotes at the Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Davesne, Donald (2017-06-28). "A fossil unicorn crestfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Lophotidae) from the Eocene of Iran". PeerJ. 5 e3381. doi:10.7717/peerj.3381. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 5493034. PMID 28674642.
- ↑ Bannikov, A. F.; Parin, N. N. (1996). "The List of Marine Fishes From Cenozoic (Upper Paleocene-Middle Miocene) Localities in Southern European Russia and Adjacent Countries". Voprosy Ikhtiologii. 37 (2): 149–161.
- ↑ Банников, Александр Федорович (2009). Ископаемые колючеперые рыбы (Acanthopterygii): систематика, филогения и роль в кайнозойских ихтиокомплексах Тетиса и Паратетиса (Thesis) (in Russian).
- ↑ Brownstein, Chase Doran; Near, Thomas J (2024-06-01). "Evolutionary origins of the lampriform pelagic radiation". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201 (2): 422–430. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad142. ISSN 0024-4082.
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