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| Eotetraodon Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of E. pygmaeus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Tetraodontiformes |
| Family: | Tetraodontidae |
| Genus: | †Eotetraodon Tyler, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Eotetraodon pygmaeus Zigno, 1887 | |
| Species | |
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Eotetraodon is an extinct genus of prehistoric pufferfish that lived during the Lutetian epoch of middle Eocene.[1] Fossil specimens are from the Monte Bolca lagerstatten (E. pygmaeus), and the Kuma Horizon of the Gorny Luch locality, from the North Caucasus (E. gornylutshensis).[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363: 1–560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ Bannikov, A. F.; Tyler, J. C. (2008). "A new species of the pufferfish Eotetraodon (Tetraodontiformes, Tetraodontidae) from the Eocene of the Northern Caucasus". Paleontological Journal. 42 (5): 526–530. doi:10.1134/S0031030108050080. S2CID 84830626.
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