Eoholocentrum

Eoholocentrum ("dawn Holocentrum") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Eocene. It contains a single species, E. macrocephalum, known from the Early Eocene of Monte Bolca, Italy.^[1][2][3] It resembled and was closely related to modern squirrelfishes and soldierfishes, and appears to have been more closely related to squirrelfishes. It can be considered a basal or stem member of the Holocentrinae.^[4][5]

Eoholocentrum Temporal range: Early Eocene[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
E. macrocephalum fossil, American Museum of Natural History
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Beryciformes
Family:	Holocentridae
Subfamily:	Holocentrinae
Genus:	†Eoholocentrum Sorbini & Tirapelle, 1975
Species:	†E. macrocephalum
Binomial name
†Eoholocentrum macrocephalum (de Blainville, 1818)
Synonyms
Holocentrum macrocephalum de Blainville, 1818

It was originally erroneously named by Volta (1796) as a fossil specimen of "Holocentrus sogo" (a synonym for Holocentrus adscensionis) and then as a specimen of "Chaetodon saxatilis" (a synonym for Abudefduf saxatilis). It was described as its own species in Holocentrus by de Blainville (1818)^[6] before being placed in its own genus in 1975.

See also

• Paleontology portal
• Fish portal

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish