Eolamprogrammus

Eolamprogrammus
Temporal range: Earliest Ypresian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Subfamily: Neobythitinae
Genus: †Eolamprogrammus
Daniltshenko, 1968
Species:
†E. senectus
Binomial name
†Eolamprogrammus senectus
Daniltshenko, 1968

Eolamprogrammus ("dawn Lamprogrammus") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine cusk-eel that lived during the earliest Eocene. It contains a single species, E. senectus from the earliest Ypresian-aged Danata Formation of Turkmenistan. It may potentially represent an early member of the Neobythitinae.

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