Eolates
Extinct genus of fishes
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Eolates ("dawn Lates") is an extinct genus of prehistoric lates perch from the Paleogene of Europe.[2][3] It contains three species, two marine and one freshwater, known from the early-middle Eocene and Late Oligocene.[4]
| Eolates Temporal range: | |
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| Specimen of E. gracilis, Natural History Museum, Berlin | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Suborder: | Centropomoidei |
| Family: | Latidae |
| Genus: | †Eolates Sorbini, 1970 |
| Type species | |
| †Lates gracilis Agassiz, 1833 | |
| Species | |
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The following species are known:[5][6][7]
- E. aquensis (Gaudant, 1977) - Late Oligocene of France (Aix-en-Provence Formation) (=Lates aquensis Gaudant, 1977)[4]
- E. gracilis (Agassiz, 1833) (type species) - Early Eocene of Italy (Monte Bolca) (=Lates gracilis Agassiz, 1833)
- E. macrurus (Agassiz, 1833) - Middle Eocene (Lutetian) of France (Lutetian limestone) (=Lates macrurus Agassiz, 1833)
The single late-surviving freshwater species, E. aquensis, may be distinct enough to belong to its own genus.[8]
