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Extinct genus of fishes

Africentrum
Temporal range: Upper Miocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Beryciformes
Family: Holocentridae
Subfamily: Myripristinae
Genus: †Africentrum
White and Moy-Thomas, 1941
Species: †A. melitense
Binomial name
†Africentrum melitense
(Woodward, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Holocentrum melitense Woodward, 1887

Africentrum is an extinct genus of prehistoric soldierfish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now Malta. It contains a single species, A. melitense. It has been either recovered as the sister genus to Myripristis or in a polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily.

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References

  1. ^ 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. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  3. Woodward, A. Smith (1887). "VI.—On a New Species of Holocenturm from the Miocene of Malta; with a List of Fossil Berycidæ hitherto Described". Geological Magazine. 4 (8): 355–359. doi:10.1017/S0016756800193963. ISSN 0016-7568.
  4. Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2014-12-19). "The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes)". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161. doi:10.1111/evo.12562. ISSN 0014-3820.
  5. Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571. ISSN 1477-2019.
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