Eoluvarus
Extinct genus of fishes
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Eoluvarus ("dawn Luvarus") is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Eocene of India.[1] It contains a single species, E. bondei from the late Ypresian-aged fuller's earth deposits in the Kapurdi Formation of the Barmer District, Rajasthan.[2][3]
| Eoluvarus Temporal range: Early Eocene, | |
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| Artist's restoration of E. bondei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Percomorpha |
| Family: | †Exelliidae |
| Genus: | †Eoluvarus Sahni & Choudhary, 1977 |
| Species: | †E. bondei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eoluvarus bondei Sahni & Choudhary, 1977 | |
As its name suggests, it was initially considered an early louvar. Later, more comprehensive specimens were found from the same locality, and E. bondei was reappraised as being a relative of Exellia, an unusual genus of spadefish-like percomorph known from Italy and Turkmenistan, and thus also a member of the family Exelliidae.[2][4][5]
