Avitolabrax Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Lateolabracidae |
Genus: | † Avitolabrax Takai, 1942 |
Species: | †A. denticulatus |
Binomial name | |
†Avitolabrax denticulatus Takai, 1942 | |
Avitolabrax is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine perciform fish that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch. [1] [2] It has a single known species, A. denticulatus, from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan. [3]
Initially described as a "serranid" when that family was thought to be more expansive, later studies suggest that it may be ancestral to the extant genus Lateolabrax , potentially making it the earliest member of the family Lateolabracidae. [3] [4]
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