Echinelops
Extinct genus of fishes
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Echinelops is an extinct genus of elopiform ray-finned fish known from the Early Oligocene of eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It was first named by Alison M. Murray and Izzet Hoşgör in 2012 and the type species is Echinelops ozcani.[1]
| Echinelops Temporal range: Early Oligocene | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Elopiformes |
| Genus: | †Echinelops Murray & Hoşgör, 2012 |
| Type species | |
| †Echinelops ozcani Murray & Hoşgör, 2012 | |
