{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{italic title}}{{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|97|93.5|Cenomanian}} | image = Apateopholis laniatus.JPG | image_caption = Fossil specimen | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Apateopholis laniatus | grandparent_authority = Goody, 1969 | authority = (Davis, 1887) | parent_authority = Woodward, 1891 | synonyms = * ''Rhinellus laniatus'' <small>Davis, 1887</small> }}{{Distinguish|Apateodus}} '''''Apateopholis''''' (meaning "confusing scale") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish. It is the only member of the family '''Apateopholidae''' and contains a single species, '''''A. laniatus''','' from the Cenomanian of Lebanon. It was a relative of modern lizardfish and lancetfish in the order Aulopiformes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35556&is_real_user=1 |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Silva |first1=Hilda M. A |last2=Gallo |first2=Valéria |title=Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |date=June 2011 |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=483–511 |doi=10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010 |pmid=21670874 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Forey |first1=Peter L. |last2=Yi |first2=Lu |last3=Patterson |first3=Colin |last4=Davies |first4=Cliff E. |title=Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |date=January 2003 |volume=1 |issue=4 |pages=227–330 |doi=10.1017/S147720190300107X |bibcode=2003JSPal...1..227F |s2cid=85606708 }}</ref> At least one study has found it to be a potential sister genus to the enigmatic ''Yabrudichthys'' of the West Bank.<ref>{{cite thesis |last1=Chida |first1=Mori |date=2022 |title=A new species of dercetid and the assessment of the phylogeny of the Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) |doi=10.7939/r3-nqmz-nf15 }}{{pn|date=February 2024}}</ref>
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† Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Cenomanian genera Category:Taxa named by Arthur Smith Woodward Category:Fossil taxa described in 1891 Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia
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