Eoholocentrum
Extinct genus of fishes
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Eoholocentrum ("dawn Holocentrum") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. macrocephalum, known from the Early Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.[1][2][3] It resembled and was closely related to modern squirrelfishes and soldierfishes, and appears to have been more closely related to squirrelfishes. It can be considered a basal or stem member of the Holocentrinae.[4][5]
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| E. macrocephalum fossil, American Museum of Natural History | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Subfamily: | Holocentrinae |
| Genus: | †Eoholocentrum Sorbini & Tirapelle, 1975 |
| Species: | †E. macrocephalum |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eoholocentrum macrocephalum (de Blainville, 1818) | |
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It was originally erroneously named by Volta (1796) as a fossil specimen of "Holocentrus sogo" (a synonym for Holocentrus adscensionis) and then as a specimen of "Chaetodon saxatilis" (a synonym for Abudefduf saxatilis). It was described as its own species in Holocentrus by de Blainville (1818)[6] before being placed in its own genus in 1975. The alleged percomorph species Gillidia antiquua (Agassiz, 1833) is likely also synonymous with Eoholocentrum.[7]
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