''Dinelops'' ("terrible '' Elops''") is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous. It contains a single species, ''D. ornatus'', from the

Cenomanian The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...

of England (

English Chalk The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the Upper Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England. The same or similar rock sequences occur ac ...

). It was initially and often continues to be classified (alongside ''

Osmeroides ''Osmeroides'' is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish from the Cretaceous. See also * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List ( ...

'') in the Osmeroididae, a family of extinct

elopomorph The superorder Elopomorpha contains a variety of types of fishes that range from typical silvery-colored species, such as the tarpons and ladyfishes of the Elopiformes and the bonefishes of the Albuliformes, to the long and slender, smooth-bodie ...

fish that are placed in either the Albuliformes or Elopiformes. However, other studies place ''Osmeroides'' in the Albuliformes and ''Dinelops'' in the Elopiformes.

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Elopiformes Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Cretaceous fish of Europe Late Cretaceous bony fish Cenomanian genera Fossils of England Fossil taxa described in 1907 Taxa named by Arthur Smith Woodward {{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub