{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}} {{speciesbox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|55.8|48.6|Lower Eocene<ref name="sepkoskidb">{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=363 |pages=1–560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }}</ref>}} | taxon = Eosynanceja brabantica | authority = Casier, 1946 | parent_authority = Casier, 1946 | display_parents = 2 }}
'''''Eosynanceja''''' ("dawn ''Synanceia''") is an extinct genus of prehistoric scorpionfish that lived during the Eocene.<ref name="sepkoskidb"/> It contains a single species, '''''E. brabantica''''', known from the Early Eocene of Belgium.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dobbels |first=Leon |date=1994 |title=Soortenlijst van fossiele vissen uit het Eoceen van België |url=https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/566640/AFZ1994015004010.pdf |journal=Afzettingen WTKG |volume=15 |issue=4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35896 |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>
It is the oldest known scorpaenoid—and one of the oldest definitive crown group perciforms—to be known from body fossils.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Near |first=Thomas J. |last2=Thacker |first2=Christine E. |date=2024-04-18 |title=Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) |url=https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-65/issue-1/014.065.0101/Phylogenetic-Classification-of-Living-and-Fossil-Ray-Finned-Fishes-Actinopterygii/10.3374/014.065.0101.full |journal=Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History |volume=65 |issue=1 |doi=10.3374/014.065.0101 |issn=0079-032X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is known from portions of the jaw, cheek, and vertebral column.<ref>{{Cite book|date=2003|title=Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54a3679de4b0d88dbda40971/t/54a3ac11e4b0fe11941215cb/1420012561410/3_SmithScorpaeniformesII.pdf|pages=164 |doi=10.5860/choice.40-6159 |issn=0009-4978}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Paleontology|Fish}} * Prehistoric fish * List of prehistoric bony fish
==References== {{Reflist}}
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{{paleo-rayfinned-fish-stub}} {{scorpaeniformes-stub}} † Category:Prehistoric percomorph genera Category:Eocene fish of Europe Category:Ypresian genera Category:Fossils of Belgium Category:Fossil taxa described in 1946