Apateopholis
Appearance
Apateopholis Temporal range:
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Aulopiformes |
Superfamily: | † Ichthyotringoidea
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Family: | †Apateopholidae Goody, 1969 |
Genus: | †Apateopholis Woodward, 1891 |
Species: | †A. laniatus
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Binomial name | |
†Apateopholis laniatus (Davis, 1887)
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Apateopholis (meaning "confusing scale") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is the only member of the family Apateopholidae and contains a single species, A. laniatus, from the Cenomanian of Lebanon. It was a relative of modern lizardfish and lancetfish in the order Aulopiformes.[1][2][3] At least one study has found it to be a potential sister genus to the enigmatic Yabrudichthys of the West Bank.[4]
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