{{Short description|Extinct species of fish}} {{Speciesbox | image = Eastmanalepes_primaevus.JPG | image_caption = ''E. primaevus'' | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|49|Early Eocene}} | taxon = Eastmanalepes primaevus | parent_authority = Bannikov, 1984 | authority = (Eastman, 1904) | synonyms = * ''Caranx primaevus'' <small>Eastman, 1904</small> }}
'''''Eastmanalepes''''' (meaning "Eastman's scale) is an extinct genus of prehistoric jackfish known from the Eocene of Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36014 |access-date=2024-12-16 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref> It contains a single species, '''''E. primaevus''''', known from the late Ypresian of the Monte Bolca site in Italy. It was originally described as a species of the jackfish genus ''Caranx'', which it has a superficially similar outline to. However, it differs from ''Caranx'', and almost all other jackfish, in that it has very large, very pronounced scutes along its lateral line. According to Bannikov, ''E. primaevus'' is probably more related to the extinct jackfish genera, ''Eothynnus'' and ''Teratichthys''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite thesis |last=Банников |first=Александр Федорович |title=Ископаемые колючеперые рыбы (Acanthopterygii): систематика, филогения и роль в кайнозойских ихтиокомплексах Тетиса и Паратетиса |date=2009 |url=https://earthpapers.net/iskopaemye-kolyucheperye-ryby-acanthopterygii-sistematika-filogeniya-i-rol-v-kaynozoyskih-ihtiokompleksah-tetisa-i-parate |language=ru-RU}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish
==References== {{Reflist}} * "Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at harvard college. Volume 46 - Page 29" [https://books.google.com/books?id=dabPAAAAMAAJ&dq=caranx+primaevus&pg=PA29] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120403023333/http://vak.ed.gov.ru/common/img/uploaded/files/vak/announcements/biolog/2009/06-11/BannikovAF.pdf]
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{{paleo-perciformes-stub}} † Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Ypresian genera Category:Fossils of Italy Category:Fossil taxa described in 1984