Eoprotelops
| Eoprotelops Temporal range: Kimmeridgian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Family: | †Protelopidae |
| Genus: | †Eoprotelops Saint-Seine, 1949 |
| Species: | †E. vireti
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| †Eoprotelops vireti Saint-Seine, 1949
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Eoprotelops ("dawn Protelops") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish, most likely a basal elopiform, from the Late Jurassic. It contains a single species, E. vireti, from the Kimmeridgian-aged paleontological site of Cerin, France.[1][2][3][4]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Saint-Seine, Pierre de (1949). "Les poissons des calcaires lithographiques de Cerin (Ain)". Publications du musée des Confluences. 2 (1): 3–79. doi:10.3406/mhnly.1949.984.
- ^ Khalloufi, Bouziane; El Houssaini Darif, Khadija; Jourani, Essaid; Khaldoune, Fatima; Jalil, Nour-Eddine (2018-02-25). "A new Palaeocene Megalopidae (Teleostei, Elopomorpha) from the phosphate basins of Morocco". Historical Biology: 1–10. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1443327. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Murray, Alison M.; Hoşgör, Izzet (2012-03-01). "An early Oligocene elopiform fish from a new locality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2). doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.648248. ISSN 0272-4634.
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