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Extinct genus of fishes

Eoplectus
Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil specimen, Museo di Storia Naturale Verona
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: †Eoplectidae
Genus: †Eoplectus
Tyler, 1973
Species: †E. bloti
Binomial name
†Eoplectus bloti
Tyler, 1973

Eoplectus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine tetraodontiform fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bloti from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae. It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.

It displays some unique morphological traits among tetraodontiforms, that support it being a basal member of the Tetraodontoidei.

See also

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. 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.
  3. Laan, Richard Van Der (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy. 466: 1–167. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466.
  4. Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C.; Arcila, Dahiana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2017-02-01). "A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115. ISSN 1477-2019.
  5. Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina; Tyler, James C.; Harrington, Richard C.; Friedman, Matt (2016). "Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 499–514. doi:10.1111/pala.12245. ISSN 1475-4983.
  6. Franceso Santini; James C. Tyler (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x.
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