Aulorhamphus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene. It contains four species known from the Early Eocene of Italy (Monte Bolca) and the Middle Eocene of Russia. It was an aulorhamphid, an extinct family of syngnathiform fishes.[1][2][3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | †Aulorhamphidae |
| Genus: | †Aulorhamphus Zigno, 1887 |
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The following species are known:
- A. bolcensis (Steindachner, 1863) - Ypresian of Italy
- A. capellini Zigno, 1887- Ypresian of Italy
- A. caucasicus Bannikov & Tyler, 2006 - Lutetian/Bartonian of the North Caucasus, Russia[3]
- A. chiarisorbiniae Bannikov & Tyler, 2011 - Ypresian of Italy
References edit
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ^ Carnevale, G.; Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Marramà, G.; Tyler, James C.; Zorzin., R. (2014). "The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide" (PDF). Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 4 (1): i–xxvii. hdl:10088/25678.
- ^ a b Bannikov, Alexandre F.; Tyler, James C. (2006). "A new species of the genus Aulorhamphus (Gasterosteiformes: Aulorhamphidae) from the Eocene of the Caucasus in southwestern Russia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 119 (1): 143–149. doi:10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[143:ANSOTG]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0006-324X.
- ^ Murray, Alison M. (2022-12-31). "Re-description and phylogenetic relationships of † Protosyngnathus sumatrensis (Teleostei: Syngnathoidei), a freshwater pipefish from the Eocene of Sumatra, Indonesia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 20 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1080/14772019.2022.2113832. ISSN 1477-2019.
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