Eocottus

Eocottus (meaning "dawn Cottus") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. veronensis from the Monte Bolca site of Italy.[1][2]

Eocottus was a small fish that superficially resembled a goby or sculpin. It was initially described in Gobius by Volta (1796) (first erroneously as a fossil specimen of the Atlantic mudskipper, then Gobius barbatus, and then as its own species, G. veronensis), and moved to its own genus Eocottus by Woodward (1901), who considered it to be a relative of sculpins, hence its new name.[3] However, Bannikov (2004) determined it to be not closely related to any modern percomorph group, and placed it in its own family Eocottidae alongside Bassanichthys.[4][5] Eocottidae may potentially belong to the Perciformes, although this is uncertain.[6]

## See also

* Prehistoric fish
* List of prehistoric bony fish

## References

1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `sepkoskidb`
2. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=txn:35895.
3. ↑ Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901) (in en). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_the_Fossil_Fishes_in_the_Br/ZtEKAQAAIAAJ.
4. ↑ Bannikov, Alexandre F. (2004). "EOCOTTIDAE, A NEW FAMILY OF PERCIFORM FISHES (TELEOSTEI) FROM THE EOCENE OF NORTHERN ITALY (BOLCA)". Stud. Ric. Giacim. Terz. Bolca. Verona 10: 17-35. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Bannikov/publication/281106269_Eocottidae_a_new_family_of_perciform_fishes_Teleostei_from_the_Eocene_of_northern_Italy_Bolca/links/55d5b32008ae9d659487a4fe/Eocottidae-a-new-family-of-perciform-fishes-Teleostei-from-the-Eocene-of-northern-Italy-Bolca.pdf.
5. ↑ Bannikov, A. F. (2006-05-01). "Bassanichthys, a new replacement generic name for the Eocene fish Bassania Bannikov, 2004 (Teleostei, Perciformes)" (in en). Paleontological Journal 40 (3): 340–340. doi:10.1134/S0031030106030166. ISSN 1555-6174. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0031030106030166.
6. ↑ Laan, Richard van der (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes" (in en). European Journal of Taxonomy (466). doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466. ISSN 2118-9773. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/597.

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