Ctenodentex Temporal range:
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Illustration of holotype specimen | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Spariformes |
Family: | Sparidae |
Genus: | †
Ctenodentex Storms, 1896 |
Species: | †C. laekeniensis
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Binomial name | |
†Ctenodentex laekeniensis (
van Beneden, 1872)
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Ctenodentex is an extinct genus of prehistoric seabream from the middle Eocene of Europe. [1] [2] It contains a single species, C. laekeniensis, from the Bartonian-aged Wemmel Member of the Maldegem Formation in Belgium. [3] [4] [5] It was initially described as Dentex laekeniensis before being placed in its own genus, Ctenodentex, although some authors continue to classify it in Dentex. [3]
Plesioserranus Casier, 1966, a putative serranid from the same formation which only contains the single species P. wemmeliensis Storms, 1896 (= Serranus wemmeliensis Storms, 1896), was found to be synonymous with C. laekeniensis based on their identical otolith morphology. [3]