Eoprotelops

Eoprotelops Temporal range: Kimmeridgian, 153  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Elopiformes
Family:	† Protelopidae
Genus:	† Eoprotelops Saint-Seine, 1949
Species:	†E. vireti
Binomial name
†Eoprotelops vireti Saint-Seine, 1949

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

• 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. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.