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''Homorhynchus'' (Greek for "same snout") is a genus of prehistoric fish from the Eocene and
Oligocene The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...
. It was described by
Edouard Van Beneden Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden (5 March 1846 in Leuven – 28 April 1910 in Liège), son of Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden, was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège ...
in 1873.


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''Homorhynchus''
Paleobiology Database Acanthomorpha Eocene fish Oligocene fish {{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub