Eocottus
| Eocottus Temporal range:
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| Specimen of E. veronensis, Museo di Storia Naturale di Verona | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Family: | †Eocottidae Bannikov, 2004 |
| Genus: | †Eocottus Woodward, 1901 |
| Species: | †E. veronensis
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| †Eocottus veronensis (Volta, 1796)
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Eocottus (meaning "dawn Cottus") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. veronensis from the Monte Bolca site of Italy.[1][2]
Eocottus was a small fish that superficially resembled a goby or sculpin. It was initially described in Gobius by Volta (1796) (first erroneously as a fossil specimen of the Atlantic mudskipper, then Gobius barbatus, and then as its own species, G. veronensis), and moved to its own genus Eocottus by Woodward (1901), who considered it to be a relative of sculpins, hence its new name.[3] However, Bannikov (2004) determined it to be not closely related to any modern percomorph group, and placed it in its own family Eocottidae alongside Bassanichthys.[4][5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2004). "EOCOTTIDAE, A NEW FAMILY OF PERCIFORM FISHES (TELEOSTEI) FROM THE EOCENE OF NORTHERN ITALY (BOLCA)" (PDF). Stud. Ric. Giacim. Terz. Bolca. Verona. 10: 17–35.
- ^ Bannikov, A. F. (2006-05-01). "Bassanichthys, a new replacement generic name for the Eocene fish Bassania Bannikov, 2004 (Teleostei, Perciformes)". Paleontological Journal. 40 (3): 340–340. doi:10.1134/S0031030106030166. ISSN 1555-6174.
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