Callipteryx Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
Family: | † Callipterygidae Jordan, 1905 |
Genus: | † Callipteryx Agassiz, 1838 |
Species: | †C. speciosus |
Binomial name | |
†Callipteryx speciosus Agassiz, 1838 | |
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Callipteryx is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine percomorph fish that lived during the early Eocene. [1] [2] [3] It is the only known member of the extinct family Callipterygidae. [4] It contains a single species, C. speciosus (=C. recticaudus), known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. [3] [5]
It was initially thought to have been a relative of weeverfishes. [6] However, a more recent analysis suggests that it cannot be classified within any of the known percomorph groups. [3]
Eoluvarus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Eocene of India. It contains a single species, E. bondei from the Ypresian-aged Fuller's Earth deposits in the Kapurdi Formation of the Barmer District, Rajasthan.
Ceratoichthys is an extinct genus of lookdown-like prehistoric jackfish that lived during the late Ypresian epoch, of the Early Eocene. It contains a single species, C. pinnatiformis of Monte Bolca, Italy. It and Vomeropsis are the only known members of the extinct subfamily Vomeropsinae.
Eoplectus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine tetraodontiform fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bloti from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae. It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.
Aeoliscoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived from the early Eocene. It is known from a single species, A. longirostris, from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. It was a member of Centriscidae, making it a relative of modern shrimpfish and snipefish. Its name references its close resemblance to the extant shrimpfish genus Aeoliscus.
Calamostoma is an extinct relative of the ghost pipefish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, C. lesiniforme from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is one of the few known fossil ghost pipefishes. Calamostoma and the other Bolca solenostomid, Solenorhynchus, are both placed in the extinct subfamily Solenorhynchinae.
Anguilloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived in the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. branchiostegalis. Fossils are known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.
Bolcyrus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived during the Early Eocene. It was a member of the family Congridae, which also contains modern conger eels.
Eoanguilla is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. leptoptera from the Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is thought to have been an early marine relative of the modern freshwater eels.
Bolcanguilla is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived during the early division of the Eocene epoch. It contains a single species, B. brachycephala from the Monte Bolca site of Italy. Its exact taxonomic affinities within the Anguilliformes remain uncertain.
Bradyurus is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains two species, both known from the Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy.
Ductor is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, D. vestenae, known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is the only member of the family Ductoridae. It is the earliest representative of the suborder Echeneoidei, and is thought to be most closely related to cobias and dolphinfish.
Acanthonemus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. subaureus, known from the famous Monte Bolca site in Italy. It is the only genus in the extinct family Acanthonemidae.
Eolactoria is an extinct genus of highly unusual prehistoric boxfish from the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. sorbinii from the Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca site in Italy.
Archaephippus is an extinct genus of prehistoric spadefish that lived from the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. asper, known from Italy. Several exquisitely preserved fossils have been found from the Monte Bolca lagerstatten. Some juvenile specimens preserve the vertical striped coloration that they would have likely had in life.
Carangopsis is an extinct relative of the bluefish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains two species, both from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.
Carangodes is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, C. bicornis, from the famous Monte Bolca site in Italy. It is the only known member of the extinct perciform family Carangodidae.
Eoplatax is an extinct genus of prehistoric spadefish that lived during the Early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. papilio, from the Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. As its name suggests are closely allied to the extant genus, Platax, more commonly known as "batfish."
Acanthopygaeus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine acanthuriform fish in the family Siganidae. It is known from the Eocene lagerstätte "Pesciara" in Bolca, Italy.
Dalpiazella is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel from the Eocene of Europe. It contains a single species, D. brevicauda, from the late Ypresian-aged Monte Bolca lagerstatten of Italy. It is though to be closely related to the sympatric genus Paranguilla, with both genera together constituting the family Paranguillidae.
Cyclopoma is an extinct genus of marine percomorph fish from the Eocene. It is known from the Ypresian to the Lutetian of Europe and eastern North America.