Eoplectus
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| Eoplectus Temporal range:
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| Fossil specimen, Museo di Storia Naturale Verona | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | †Eoplectidae |
| Genus: | †Eoplectus Tyler, 1973 |
| Species: | †E. bloti
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| †Eoplectus bloti Tyler, 1973
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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.[2] It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae.[3] It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.[1]
It displays some unique morphological traits among tetraodontiforms, that support it being a basal member of the Tetraodontoidei.[4][5][6]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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