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The second is Anguilla ignota, which is the fossil that represents the ancestor to all extant freshwater eels and marks the upper boundary of the age of anguillidae. Using these two fossil calibration points, freshwater eels are said to originate between 83 million years ago and 43.8 million years ago.
Anguillidae Rafinesque, 1810 (freshwater eels) Nemichthyidae Kaup. 1859 (snipe eels or threadtail snipe eels) Serrivomeridae Trewavas, 1932 (sawtooth eels) Cyematidae Regan, 1912 (bobtail eels) Monognathidae Trewavas, 1937 (onejaw gulpers) Neocyematidae Poulsen, M. J. Miller, Sado, Hanel, Tsukamoto & Miya, 2018 (orange bobtail eels)
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Anguilloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine eel that lived in the early Eocene.It contains a single species, A. branchiostegalis.Fossils are known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.
The Age of Fishes Museum is one of only two (the other one, its sister museum, is at Miguasha in Quebec, Canada) [citation needed] [which?] Devonian fish fossil museums in the world and is a National Heritage site due to its international scientific significance. [1] Located in Canowindra, New South Wales, Australia, it was established in 1998. [2]
Congroidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Anguilliformes, the eels.These eels are mostly marine, although a few species of snake eel will enter freshwater, and they are found in tropical and tempareate waters throughout the world. [2]
The block of stone had been provided by the Konoha Fossils Museum as part of a decades-long educational initiative to bring geology and paleontology into the classroom. ... Finding the fossil of ...
The Pacific shortfinned eel (Anguilla obscura), also known as the Pacific shortfinned freshwater eel, the short-finned eel, and the South Pacific eel, [2] is an eel in the family Anguillidae. [3] It was described by Albert Günther in 1871. [ 4 ]