Dapaloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric estuarine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene to the early Miocene epoch.[1] Many of the remains now assigned to this genus were previously assigned to Dapalis.[2][3] It was previously classified as a "percichthyid" under a former treatment of the family, but is now treated as an indeterminate perciform.[2][4]

Dapaloides
Temporal range: Early Oligocene to Early Miocene[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Genus: Dapaloides
Gaudant, 1985
Species
  • D. sieblosensis (Winkler, 1880)
  • D. miloni Gaudant, 1989

It contains two species known from Europe:

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References

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  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ a b c d Reichenbacher, Bettina (1995). "Lower oligocène fishes (otoliths) from the Neuwied Basin (Rhenish Massif, Western Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 69 (1): 241–255. Bibcode:1995PalZ...69..241R. doi:10.1007/BF02985988.
  3. ^ a b Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
  4. ^ a b Martini, Erlend; Reichenbacher, Bettina (2007). "Nannoplankton and fish otoliths from the Middle Pechelbronn Beds (Early Oligocene, Upper Rhine Graben/Mainz Basin)" (PDF). Geol. Abh. Hessen. 116: 235–273.