Eolates
| Eolates Temporal range:
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| Specimen of E. gracilis, Natural History Museum, Berlin | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Latidae |
| Genus: | †Eolates Sorbini, 1970 |
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| †Lates gracilis Agassiz, 1833
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Eolates ("dawn Lates") is an extinct genus of prehistoric lates perch from the Paleogene of Europe.[2][3] It contains three species, two marine and one freshwater, known from the early-middle Eocene and Late Oligocene.[4]
The following species are known:[5][6][7]
- E. aquensis (Gaudant, 1977) - Late Oligocene of France (Aix-en-Provence Formation) (=Lates aquensis Gaudant, 1977)[4]
- E. gracilis (Agassiz, 1833) (type species) - Early Eocene of Italy (Monte Bolca) (=Lates gracilis Agassiz, 1833)
- E. macrurus (Agassiz, 1833) - Middle Eocene (Lutetian) of France (Lutetian limestone) (=Lates macrurus Agassiz, 1833)
The single late-surviving freshwater species, E. aquensis, may be distinct enough to belong to its own genus.[8]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "†Eolates (perch-like fish)". Fossilworks.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2025-01-05.
- ^ a b Cavin, Lionel (2017-05-31). Freshwater Fishes: 250 Million Years of Evolutionary History. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-08-101141-6.
- ^ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
- ^ Otero, Olga (2004). "Anatomy, systematics and phylogeny of both Recent and fossil latid fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes, Latidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141 (1): 81–133. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00111.x. ISSN 1096-3642.
- ^ Murray, Alison M.; Kovalchuk, Oleksandr M.; Vernygora, Oksana (2018-07-04). "Last evidence of Lates (Perciformes, Latinae) in the latest Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys". Historical Biology. 30 (5). doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1312361. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Gaudant, Jean; Nel, André; Nury, Denise; Véran, Monette; Carnevale, Giorgio (2018-08-01). "The uppermost Oligocene of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France): A Cenozoic brackish subtropical Konservat-Lagerstätte, with fishes, insects and plants". Comptes Rendus Palevol. Lagerstätten 2: Exceptionally preserved fossils Lagerstätten 2 : fossiles à conservation exceptionnelle. 17 (7): 460–478. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.08.002. ISSN 1631-0683.
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