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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Subfamily: | Myripristinae |
| Genus: | †Holocentrites Conrad, 1941 |
| Species: | †H. ovalis
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| †Holocentrites ovalis Conrad, 1941
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Holocentrites is an extinct genus of prehistoric soldierfish known from the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of the southeastern United States.1 It is the oldest known soldierfish in the fossil record, and inhabited the Atlantic Ocean off the southern United States, in contrast to modern soldierfish which are restricted to the Indo-Pacific.234
It contains a single known species, H. ovalis, known from the Late Eocene-aged Ocala Limestone of Florida,1 the Early Oligocene-aged Marianna Limestone of Florida & Alabama, and the Early Oligocene-aged Glendon Limestone of Mississippi.56 The type specimen was an articulated partial skeleton found in the Ocala Limestone of what is now Florida Caverns State Park.1
References
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- Dunkle, David Hosbrook; Olsen, Stanley John (1959). Description of a Beryciform fish from the Oligocene of Florida. Special publication / Florida Geological Survey ;no. 2:3. Tallahassee, Fla.: Florida Geological Survey.