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Eolamprogrammus

Eolamprogrammus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine cusk-eel that lived during the earliest Eocene. It contains a single species, E. senectus from the earliest Ypresian-aged Danata Formation of Turkmenistan. It may potentially represent an early member of the Neobythitinae.

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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Subfamily: Neobythitinae
Genus: Eolamprogrammus
Daniltshenko, 1968
Species:
E. senectus
Binomial name
Eolamprogrammus senectus
Daniltshenko, 1968

Eolamprogrammus ("dawn Lamprogrammus") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine cusk-eel that lived during the earliest Eocene.1 It contains a single species, E. senectus from the earliest Ypresian-aged2 Danata Formation of Turkmenistan.3 It may potentially represent an early member of the Neobythitinae.4

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  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. Bannikov, A. F.; Erebakan, I. G. (2023-10-01). "On the Evolution of Some Groups of Marine Bony Fishes in the Cenozoic of the Tethys and Paratethys". Paleontological Journal. 57 (5): 475–490. Bibcode:2023PalJ...57..475B. doi:10.1134/S0031030123050015. ISSN 1555-6174.
  3. Bannikov, A. F.; Parin, N. N. (1996). "The List of Marine Fishes From Cenozoic (Upper Paleocene-Middle Miocene) Localities in Southern European Russia and Adjacent Countries". Voprosy Ikhtiologii. 37 (2): 149–161.
  4. Carnevale, Giorgio; Johnson, G. David (2015-11-12). "A Cretaceous Cusk-Eel (Teleostei, Ophidiiformes) from Italy and the Mesozoic Diversification of Percomorph Fishes". Copeia. 103 (4): 771–791. doi:10.1643/CI-15-236. ISSN 0045-8511.