Eomuraena
| Eomuraena Temporal range: Possible Maastrichtian occurrence
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Genus: | †Eomuraena Casier, 1967 |
| Species: | †E. sagittidens
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| †Eomuraena sagittidens Casier, 1967
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Eomuraena ("dawn Muraena") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine moray eel that lived during the lower Eocene, with potential Late Cretaceous records also known. It contains a single species, E. sagittidens.[1][2]
Definitive records of E. sagittidens are only known from Early Eocene-aged sediments on the German island of Fehmarn.[3] However, the teeth of a similar fish (referred to as Eomuraena cf. sagittidens) are known from marine-brackish sediments in the late Maastrichtian-aged Lameta Formation and freshwater sediments in the Early Paleocene-aged Intertrappean Beds of India.[4][5][6]
See also
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References
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- ^ "Poissons de l'Eocene inferieur de Katharinenhof-Fehmarn (Schleswig-Holstein)". Bull Inst r Sci nat Belg. 43 (25): 1–23. 1967. ISSN 0368-0177.
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- ^ Khosla, Ashu; Verma, Omkar; Kania, Sachin; Lucas, Spencer (2023), Khosla, Ashu; Verma, Omkar; Kania, Sachin; Lucas, Spencer (eds.), "Historical Background of Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Microbiotic Assemblages from the Sediments Associated with Deccan Volcanic Province, peninsular India", Microbiota from the Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Boundary Transition in the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India: Systematics and Palaeoecological, Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeobiogeographical Implications, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 25–48, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28855-5_2, ISBN 978-3-031-28855-5, retrieved 2025-01-14
- ^ Kapur, Vivesh V. (2024-06-01). "Current developments in Paleogene vertebrate palaeontology in view of India's final drift phase and India–Eurasia docking: an appraisal". Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy. 90 (2): 358–370. doi:10.1007/s43538-024-00272-3. ISSN 2454-9983.
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