''Echinelops'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of
elopiform ray-finned fish known from the
Early Oligocene of
eastern Anatolia,
Turkey. It was first named by Alison M. Murray and Izzet Hoşgör in
2012
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and the
type species is ''Echinelops ozcani''.
References
Elopomorpha
Fossil taxa described in 2012
Paleogene fish of Europe
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