Anguilloides Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Anguilliformes |
Family: | †Anguilloididae |
Genus: | †Anguilloides Cadrobbi, 1962 |
Species: | †A. branchiostegalis
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Binomial name | |
†Anguilloides branchiostegalis (Eastman, 1905)
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Anguilloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived in the early Eocene. It contains a single species, A. branchiostegalis. Fossils are known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.[1][2][3]
It is one of two genera in the extinct family Anguilloididae alongside Veronanguilla. The family is thought to represent a basal member of the suborder Anguilloidei.[3][4]