{{Short description|Extinct genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|95|71|Late Cenomanian to Campanian}} | image = Eurypholisboissieri.jpg | image_caption = ''E. boissieri'' specimen, San Diego County Fair | taxon = Eurypholis | authority = Pictet, 1850 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Eurypholis boissieri''''' | type_species_authority = Pictet, 1850 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *†''E. boissieri'' <small>Pictet, 1850</small> *†''E. japonicus'' <small>Uyeno & Minakawa, 1983</small> *†''E. pulchellus'' <small>(Woodward, 1901)</small> }}
'''''Eurypholis''''' (meaning "broad scale") is a genus of prehistoric marine aulopiform fish known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian). It contains three species, known from Europe, the Middle East, and east Asia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Silva |first1=Hilda M. A. |last2=Gallo |first2=Valéria |date=2011 |title=Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Enchodontoidei (Teleostei: Aulopiformes) |url=https://www.scielo.br/j/aabc/a/vPvQZ4v493QvhCLL9wh9zDb/ |journal=Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências |language=en |volume=83 |issue=2 |pages=483–511 |doi=10.1590/S0001-37652011000200010 |pmid=21670874 |issn=0001-3765|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35565 |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=paleobiodb.org}}</ref>
The following species are known:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Díaz-Cruz |first1=Jesús Alberto |last2=Alvarado-Ortega |first2=Jesús |last3=Carbot-Chanona |first3=Gerardo |date=2019-04-01 |title=Dagon avendanoi gen. and sp. nov., an Early Cenomanian Enchodontidae (Aulopiformes) fish from the El Chango quarry, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981118304073 |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |volume=91 |pages=272–284 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2019.01.014 |bibcode=2019JSAES..91..272D |issn=0895-9811|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* †'''''E. boissieri''''' <small>Pictet, 1850</small> (type species) - Cenomanian of Lebanon (Sannine Formation) (=''E. sulcidens'' <small>Pictet, 1850</small>) * †'''''E. japonicus''''' <small>Uyeno & Minakawa, 1983</small> - Campanian of Shikoku, Japan (Izumi Group)<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Uyeno |first1=Teruya |last2=Minakawa |first2=Tetsuo |date=1983 |title=A New Enchodontoid Fish of the Genus ''Eurypholis'' from the Cretaceous of Japan |url=https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/publication/geology/download/09_2/BNSM_C090202.pdf |journal=Bulletin of the National Science Museum Series C |volume=9 |issue=2}}</ref> * †'''''E. pulchellus''''' <small>(Woodward, 1901)</small> - Cenomanian of England (English Chalk) (=''Enchodus pulchellus'' <small>Woodward, 1901</small>)<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Geology |first1=British Museum (Natural History) Department of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=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>{{Cite journal |last1=Friedman |first1=Matt |last2=Beckett |first2=Hermione T. |last3=Close |first3=Roger A. |last4=Johanson |first4=Zerina |date=2016 |title=The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten |url=https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.1144/sp430.18 |journal=Geological Society, London, Special Publications |volume=430 |issue=1 |pages=165–200 |doi=10.1144/SP430.18|bibcode=2016GSLSP.430..165F |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
[[File:Eurypholis Muséum Grenoble 03082017.jpg|left|thumb|''E. boissieri'', Natural History Museum, Grenoble]] Potential indeterminate remains are known from the Cenomanian of Uzbekistan and the Maastrichtian of Greece, though a review of the Greek records has found no evidence of these remains belonging to ''Eurypholis''.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Argyriou |first1=Thodoris |last2=Davesne |first2=Donald |date=2021-01-20 |title=Offshore marine actinopterygian assemblages from the Maastrichtian–Paleogene of the Pindos Unit in Eurytania, Greece |journal=PeerJ |language=en |volume=9 |article-number=e10676 |doi=10.7717/peerj.10676 |doi-access=free |pmid=33552722 |pmc=7825367 |issn=2167-8359}}</ref>
Of these species, ''E. boissieri'' is known from many complete, articulated skeletons, ''E. pulchellus'' is known from fragmentary specimens, and ''E. japonicus'' is known from a single mandible (closely resembling that of ''pulchellus'') with very large attached teeth.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
==References== {{Reflist}} *
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Category:Enchodontidae Category:Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera
{{Alepisauriformes-stub}} Category:Late Cretaceous fish of Asia Category:Cretaceous fish of Europe Category:Cenomanian genus first appearances Category:Campanian genus extinctions Category:Fossils of Lebanon Category:Fossils of England Category:Fossils of Japan Category:Taxa named by François Jules Pictet de la Rive Category:Fossil taxa described in 1850