Dapaloides Explained

Dapaloides is an extinct genus of prehistoric estuarine ray-finned fish that lived during the early Oligocene to the early Miocene epoch. Many of the remains now assigned to this genus were previously assigned to Dapalis.^{[1] [2]} It was previously classified as a "percichthyid" under a former treatment of the family, but is now treated as an indeterminate perciform.^[3]

It contains two species known from Europe:

• D. sieblosensis (Winkler, 1880) - Rupelian to Early Miocene of Germany (=Smerdis sieblosensis Winkler, 1880, S. sandbergeri Winkler, 1880, S. rhoenensis Winkler, 1880, Perca macrantha Winkler, 1880) [body fossils and [[Otolith|otoliths]]]
• D. miloni Gaudant, 1989 - Rupelian of Brittany, France [body fossils and otoliths]

See also

• Prehistoric fish
• List of prehistoric bony fish

Notes and References

1. Reichenbacher . Bettina . 1995 . Lower oligocène fishes (otoliths) from the Neuwied Basin (Rhenish Massif, Western Germany) . Paläontologische Zeitschrift . en . 69 . 1 . 241–255 . 10.1007/BF02985988 . 1995PalZ...69..241R .
2. Book: Geology . British Museum (Natural History) Department of . 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 . Woodward . Arthur Smith . 1901 . order of the Trustees . en.
3. Martini . Erlend . Reichenbacher . Bettina . 2007 . Nannoplankton and fish otoliths from the Middle Pechelbronn Beds (Early Oligocene, Upper Rhine Graben/Mainz Basin) . Geol. Abh. Hessen . 116 . 235–273.