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Eoeugnathus megalepis

Ionoscopiformes - Subortichthyidae

Taxonomy
Eoeugnathus megalepis was named by Brough (1939). Its type specimen is BMNH P19348, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Besano, Bender collection, Monte San Giorgio, which is in an Illyrian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Italy.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Eoeugnathus megalepis Brough p. 71 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,2; text-figs 32,33,41
2003Eoeugnathus megalepis Herzog p. 228 figs. 2-13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
RankNameAuthor
—Actinopterygii()
—HalecostomiRegan 1903
—Halecomorphi(Cope 1872)
orderIonoscopiformesGrande and Bemis 1998
familySubortichthyidae
genusEoeugnathus
speciesmegalepis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Eoeugnathus megalepis Brough 1939
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