Aeoliscoides

Aeoliscoides Temporal range: Early Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Specimen at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Verona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Syngnathiformes
Family:	Centriscidae
Genus:	†Aeoliscoides Blot, 1980
Species:	†A. longirostris
Binomial name
Aeoliscoides longirostris (Blainville, 1818)

Aeoliscoides is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene.

Description

Aeoliscoides resembled the shrimpfish, an unrelated group of fish. It is mostly brown in fossils, but there were a variety of colors. It lived in the ocean. Its only species is Aeoliscoides longirostris.

Related pages

• Brook silverside
• Neotropical silverside
• Atheriniformes

References

1. "Gasterosteiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.