Eomuraena
Extinct genus of fishes
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Eomuraena ("dawn Muraena") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine moray eel that lived during the lower Eocene, with potential Late Cretaceous records also known. It contains a single species, E. sagittidens.[1][2]
| Eomuraena Temporal range: Possible Maastrichtian occurrence | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anguilliformes |
| Family: | Muraenidae |
| Genus: | †Eomuraena Casier, 1967 |
| Species: | †E. sagittidens |
| Binomial name | |
| †Eomuraena sagittidens Casier, 1967 | |
Definitive records of E. sagittidens are only known from fossil neurocrania in Early Eocene-aged sediments on the German island of Fehmarn.[3][4] However, the teeth of a similar fish (referred to as Eomuraena cf. sagittidens) are known from marine-brackish sediments in the late Maastrichtian-aged Lameta Formation and freshwater sediments in the Early Paleocene-aged Intertrappean Beds of India.[5][6][7]
