Eoplectus

Eoplectus Temporal range: Early Eocene [1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Fossil specimen, Museo di Storia Naturale Verona
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	† Eoplectidae
Genus:	† Eoplectus Tyler, 1973
Species:	†E. bloti
Binomial name
†Eoplectus bloti Tyler, 1973

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. ^[2] It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae. ^[3] It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to. ^[1]

It displays some unique morphological traits among tetraodontiforms, that support it being a basal member of the Tetraodontoidei. ^{[4] [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. Carnevale, G.; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Marramà, G.; Tyler, James C.; Zorzin., R. (2014). "The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide" (PDF). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 4 (1): i–xxvii. hdl:10088/25678.
3. Laan, Richard Van Der (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy. 466: 1–167. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466.
4. Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C.; Arcila, Dahiana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2017-02-01). "A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia)" . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115. ISSN   1477-2019.
5. Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina; Tyler, James C.; Harrington, Richard C.; Friedman, Matt (2016). "Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 499–514. doi: 10.1111/pala.12245 . ISSN   1475-4983.
6. Franceso Santini; James C. Tyler (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x.