Eoscatophagus
| Eoscatophagus Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil specimen, Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Scatophagidae |
| Genus: | †Eoscatophagus Tyler & Sorbini, 1999 |
| Species: | †E. frontalis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eoscatophagus frontalis (Agassiz, 1839) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eoscatophagus ("dawn Scatophagus") is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish, in the family Scatophagidae, known from the Eocene.[1] It contains a single species, E. frontalis, known from the Monte Bolca site of Italy.[2]
It is the earliest scatophagid known from the fossil record. It was originally erroneously identified by Volta (1796) as a specimen of the spotted scat (Scatophagus argus, then known as Chaetodon argus) itself, before being described as its own species within Scatophagus by Agassiz (1839).[3] It was moved to its own genus, Eoscatophagus, in 1999.[4]
As the earliest known member of the Scatophagidae, it is often used for calibrating phylogenies of marine fish evolution.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
- ↑ Carnevale, G.; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Marramà, G.; Tyler, James C.; Zorzin., R. (2014). "The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide" (PDF). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 4 (1): i–xxvii. hdl:10088/25678.
- ↑ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
- ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-02-26.
- ↑ Tims, Amy R.; Unmack, Peter J.; Ho, Simon Y. W. (2021-08-01). "A fossil-calibrated time-tree of all Australian freshwater fishes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 161 107180. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107180. ISSN 1055-7903.
- ↑ Bellwood, D. R.; Klanten, S.; Cowman, P. F.; Pratchett, M. S.; Konow, N.; Van Herwerden, L. (2010-02-01). "Evolutionary history of the butterflyfishes (f: Chaetodontidae) and the rise of coral feeding fishes". Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23 (2): 335–349. doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2009.01904.x. ISSN 1010-061X.