Eomuraena

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]

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]

## See also

* Prehistoric fish
* List of prehistoric bony fish

## References

1. ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
2. ↑ Mehta, Rita S.; Ward, Andrea B.; Alfaro, Michael E.; Wainwright, Peter C. (2010-12-01). "Elongation of the Body in Eels". Integrative and Comparative Biology 50 (6): 1091–1105. doi:10.1093/icb/icq075. ISSN 1540-7063. PMID 21558261. https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-abstract/50/6/1091/633110?redirectedFrom=PDF.
3. ↑ "Poissons de l'Eocene inferieur de Katharinenhof-Fehmarn (Schleswig-Holstein)". Bull Inst R Sci Nat Belg 43 (25): 1–23. 1967. ISSN 0368-0177. https://bionames.org/references/d6c6b915af09d75afbab2bb7ed2b7e73.
4. ↑ Young, Sally V. T.; Williams, R. J. (2008). "New information on the cranial anatomy of the eel genus Echelus Rafinesque, 1810 (Ophichthidae: Anguilliformes) from the Early Eocene" (in en). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 295 (1): 311–336. doi:10.1144/SP295.15. ISSN 0305-8719. Bibcode: 2008GSLSP.295..311Y. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/SP295.15.
5. ↑ Prasad, G. V. R.; Sahni, Ashok (1987). "Coastal-Plain Microvertebrate assemblage from the Terminal Cretaceous of Asifabad, Peninsular India". Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32 (1): 5–19. doi:10.1177/0971102319870102. Bibcode: 1987JPalS..32....5P. https://repository.ias.ac.in/43651/1/27-Pub.pdf.
6. ↑ Khosla, Ashu; Verma, Omkar; Kania, Sachin; Lucas, Spencer (2023), Khosla, Ashu; Verma, Omkar; Kania, Sachin et al., eds., "Historical Background of Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Microbiotic Assemblages from the Sediments Associated with Deccan Volcanic Province, peninsular India" (in en), Microbiota from the Late Cretaceous-Early Palaeocene Boundary Transition in the Deccan Intertrappean Beds of Central India: Systematics and Palaeoecological, Palaeoenvironmental and Palaeobiogeographical Implications (Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland): pp. 25–48, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28855-5_2, ISBN 978-3-031-28855-5, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28855-5_2, retrieved 2025-01-14
7. ↑ Kapur, Vivesh V. (2024-06-01). "Current developments in Paleogene vertebrate palaeontology in view of India's final drift phase and India–Eurasia docking: an appraisal" (in en). Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy 90 (2): 358–370. doi:10.1007/s43538-024-00272-3. ISSN 2454-9983. Bibcode: 2024INSAP.tmp...42K. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-024-00272-3.

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