Eoplectus

Eoplectus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine tetraodontiform fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bloti from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy.[1] It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae.[2] It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.[3]

It displays some unique morphological traits among tetraodontiforms, that support it being a basal member of the Tetraodontoidei.[4][5][6]

## See also

* Prehistoric fish
* List of prehistoric bony fish

## References

1. ↑ Carnevale, G.; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Marramà, G.; Tyler, James C.; Zorzin., R. (2014). "The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide". Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana 4 (1): i–xxvii. https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale et al 2014 The Pesciara F-L. Fishes and other vertebrates2.pdf.
2. ↑ Laan, Richard Van Der (2018-10-11). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". European Journal of Taxonomy 466: 1–167. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.466. https://zenodo.org/records/5557557.
3. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `sepkoskidb`
4. ↑ Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C.; Arcila, Dahiana; Carnevale, Giorgio (2017-02-01). "A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115. ISSN 1477-2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115.
5. ↑ Close, Roger A.; Johanson, Zerina; Tyler, James C.; Harrington, Richard C.; Friedman, Matt (2016). "Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms" (in en). Palaeontology 59 (4): 499–514. doi:10.1111/pala.12245. ISSN 1475-4983. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pala.12245.
6. ↑ Franceso Santini; James C. Tyler (2003). "A phylogeny of the families of fossil and extant tetraodontiform fishes (Acanthomorpha, Tetraodontiformes), Upper Cretaceous to Recent". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 (4): 565–617. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2003.00088.x.

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