Aeoliscoides

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

Aeoliscoides
Aeoliscoides longirostris.jpg
Specimen at the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle, Verona
Scientific classification e
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Centriscinae
Genus: Aeoliscoides
Blot, 1980
Species:
A. longirostris
Binomial name
Aeoliscoides longirostris
(Blainville, 1818)

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.

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References

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