Aeoliscoides
| Aeoliscoides Temporal range: | |
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| 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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- "Gasterosteiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.