Berybolcensis is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived in the early Eocene.[1] It contains a single species, B. leptacanthus, from the Monte Bolca lagerstatten of Italy.[2] It was a member of the Holocentridae, making it related to modern squirrelfish and soldierfish, although it was more basal than either, and is thought to have diverged from their common ancestor around the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. It is thought to be related to Tenuicentrum, another basal holocentrid from the same formation.[3][4][5]
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| Specimen at the Museo dei Fossili di Bolca | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Beryciformes |
| Family: | Holocentridae |
| Genus: | †Berybolcensis Sorbini, 1984 |
| Species: | †B. leptacanthus
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| †Berybolcensis leptacanthus (Agassiz, 1838)
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See also
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References
edit- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2015). "The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes): SHIFTING BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS AND RANGE EVOLUTION". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161. doi:10.1111/evo.12562.
- ^ Friedman, Matt; Carnevale, Giorgio (2018). "The Bolca Lagerstätten: shallow marine life in the Eocene". Journal of the Geological Society. 175 (4): 569–579. doi:10.1144/jgs2017-164. ISSN 0016-7649.
- ^ Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571. ISSN 1477-2019.
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