Eomyrus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Bartonian|Bartonian|Middle Eocene (Bartonian)}} | taxon = Eomyrus dolloi | authority = Storms, 1898 | parent_authority = Storms, 1898 }}

'''''Eomyrus''''' ("dawn ''Myrus''") is an extinct genus of prehistoric snake eel that lived during the middle Eocene. It contains a single species, '''''E. dolloi''''' from the Bartonian-aged Maldegem Formation (Wemmel Member) of Belgium.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Young |first=Sally V. T. |last2=Williams |first2=R. J. |date=2008 |title=New information on the cranial anatomy of the eel genus Echelus Rafinesque, 1810 (Ophichthidae: Anguilliformes) from the Early Eocene |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/SP295.15 |journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |language=en |volume=295 |issue=1 |pages=311–336 |doi=10.1144/SP295.15 |issn=0305-8719|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Geology |first=British Museum (Natural History) Department of |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Catalogue_of_the_Fossil_Fishes_in_the_Br/ZtEKAQAAIAAJ? |title=Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini |last2=Woodward |first2=Arthur Smith |date=1901 |publisher=order of the Trustees |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=McCosker |first=John E. |title=Family Ophichthidae. Snake Eels And Worm Eels |date=2019-03-04 |work=Orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes: Part 9, Volume 1 |pages=254–412 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.12987/9781933789323-012/pdf?licenseType=restricted |access-date=2025-01-15 |publisher=Yale University Press |language=en |doi=10.12987/9781933789323-012 |isbn=978-1-933789-32-3 |last2=Böhlke |first2=Eugenia B. |last3=Böhlke |first3=James E.|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=DISUSED PALEOGENE REGIONAL STAGES FROM BELGIUM: MONTIAN, HEERSIAN, LANDENIAN, PANISELIAN, BRUXELLIAN, LAEKENIAN, LEDIAN, WEMMELIAN AND TONGRIAN |url=https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=1213&lang=fr&format=pdf |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=popups.uliege.be}}</ref>

The species ''E. latispinus'' <small>(Agassiz, 1844)</small> was reclassified into this genus, but has since been placed in ''Voltaconger''.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Monotypic prehistoric ray-finned fish genera † Category:Bartonian genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Fossils of Belgium Category:Fossil taxa described in 1898