Avitolabrax

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|23.3|20.3|Early Miocene<ref name="sepkoskidb"/>}} | image = | image_caption = | genus = Avitolabrax | parent_authority = Takai, 1942 | species = denticulatus | authority = Takai, 1942 }}

'''''Avitolabrax''''' is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch.<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |access-date=2009-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archive-date=2011-07-23 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35954 |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> It has a single known species, '''''A. denticulatus''''', from the Siramizu Formation of Fukushima, Japan.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=1942 |title=Avilolabrax denticulatus, a New Serranid Fish from the Early Miocene of the Joban Coal-field, Japan |url=https://bionames.org/references/0bcbc053714d10f13e91516a3fa5b455 |journal=Journal of the Faculty of Science Tokyo University Sect II Geology |volume=6 |pages=137–139 |issn=0368-2250}}</ref>

Initially described as a "serranid" when that family was thought to be more expansive, later studies suggest that it may be ancestral to the extant genus ''Lateolabrax'', potentially making it the earliest member of the family Lateolabracidae.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Matschiner |first1=Michael |last2=Musilová |first2=Zuzana |last3=Barth |first3=Julia M. I. |last4=Starostová |first4=Zuzana |last5=Salzburger |first5=Walter |last6=Steel |first6=Mike |last7=Bouckaert |first7=Remco |date=2016-08-25 |title=Bayesian Phylogenetic Estimation of Clade Ages Supports Trans-Atlantic Dispersal of Cichlid Fishes |url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/suppl/2016/02/01/038455.DC1/038455-1.pdf |journal=Systematic Biology |type=Supplementary Material |language=en |article-number=syw076 |doi=10.1093/sysbio/syw076 |pmid=28173588 |issn=1063-5157}}</ref>

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† Category:Miocene fish of Asia Category:Fossils of Japan Category:Fossil taxa described in 1942 Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera