Africentrum

Africentrum Temporal range: Late Oligocene to Upper Miocene [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beryciformes
Family:	Holocentridae
Subfamily:	Myripristinae
Genus:	† Africentrum White and Moy-Thomas, 1941
Species:	†A. melitense
Binomial name
†Africentrum melitense (Woodward, 1887)
Synonyms
Holocentrum melitenseWoodward, 1887

Africentrum is an extinct genus of prehistoric soldierfish that lived during the Late Oligocene to Late Miocene of Europe. It contains a single species, A. melitense, known from the Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now Malta. ^{[2] [1] [3]} In addition, indeterminate fossil remains of this genus are known from the Late Oligocene of Poland. ^[4]

It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily. ^{[5] [6]}

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

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. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
3. Woodward, A. Smith (1887). "VI.—On a New Species of Holocenturm from the Miocene of Malta; with a List of Fossil Berycidæ hitherto Described" . Geological Magazine. 4 (8): 355–359. doi:10.1017/S0016756800193963. ISSN   0016-7568.
4. Kotlarczyk, Janusz; Jerzmańska, Anna; Świdnicka, Ewa; Wiszniowska, Teresa (2006). "A framework of ichthyofaunal ecostratigraphy of the Oligocene-Early Miocene strata of the Polish Outer Carpathian basin". Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae. 76 (1): 1–111.
5. Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2014-12-19). "The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes)". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161. doi:10.1111/evo.12562. ISSN   0014-3820.
6. Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571 . ISSN   1477-2019.