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Dapaloides

Dapaloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric estuarine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene to the early Miocene epoch. Many of the remains now assigned to this genus were previously assigned to Dapalis. It was previously classified as a "percichthyid" under a former treatment of the family, but is now treated as an indeterminate perciform.

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Dapaloides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Genus: †Dapaloides
Gaudant, 1985
Species
  • †D. sieblosensis (Winkler, 1880)
  • †D. miloni Gaudant, 1989

Dapaloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric estuarine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene to the early Miocene epoch.1 Many of the remains now assigned to this genus were previously assigned to Dapalis.23 It was previously classified as a "percichthyid" under a former treatment of the family, but is now treated as an indeterminate perciform.24

It contains two species known from Europe:

  • †D. sieblosensis (Winkler, 1880) - Rupelian to Early Miocene of Germany (=Smerdis sieblosensis Winkler, 1880, S. sandbergeri Winkler, 1880, S. rhoenensis Winkler, 1880, Perca macrantha Winkler, 1880) [body fossils and otoliths]234
  • †D. miloni Gaudant, 1989 - Rupelian of Brittany, France [body fossils and otoliths]2
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References

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. Reichenbacher, Bettina (1995). "Lower oligocène fishes (otoliths) from the Neuwied Basin (Rhenish Massif, Western Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 69 (1): 241–255. Bibcode:1995PalZ...69..241R. doi:10.1007/BF02985988.
  3. 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.
  4. Martini, Erlend; Reichenbacher, Bettina (2007). "Nannoplankton and fish otoliths from the Middle Pechelbronn Beds (Early Oligocene, Upper Rhine Graben/Mainz Basin)" (PDF). Geol. Abh. Hessen. 116: 235–273.