Aulostomoides

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|49|Early Eocene}} | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Aulostomoides tyleri | authority = Blot, 1980 | parent_authority = Blot, 1980 }}

'''''Aulostomoides''''' is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish from the early Eocene. It contains a single species, '''''A. tyleri''''' from the Monte Bolca site of Italy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35853 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> It is thought to be a member of Aulostomoidea, making it a relative of trumpetfish and cornetfish.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cantalice|first1=Kleyton Magno|last2=Alvarado-Ortega|first2=Jesús|date=2016-12-12 |title=Eekaulostomus cuevasae gen. and sp. nov., an ancient armored trumpetfish (Aulostomoidea) from Danian (Paleocene) marine deposits of Belisario Domínguez, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico |url=https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2016/1659-ancientarmored-trumpetfish |access-date=2024-03-07 |journal=Palaeontologia Electronica |doi=10.26879/682 |language=en|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brownstein |first=C D |date=2023 |title=Syngnathoid Evolutionary History and the Conundrum of Fossil Misplacement |journal=Integrative Organismal Biology |volume=5 |issue=1 |article-number=obad011 |doi=10.1093/iob/obad011 |issn=2517-4843 |pmc=10210065 |pmid=37251781}}</ref>

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† Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Ypresian genera Category:Fossils of Italy Category:Fossil taxa described in 1980