Aeoliscoides
| Aeoliscoides Temporal range:
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| Specimen at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Verona | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Centriscidae |
| Genus: | †Aeoliscoides Blot, 1980 |
| Species: | †A. longirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Aeoliscoides longirostris (Blainville, 1818)
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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
References
- "Gasterosteiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 11, 2012.