''Eocoelopoma'' (meaning "dawn hollow-cover" in Greek) is an extinct

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of prehistoric

scombrid The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butterfl ...

fish, related to mackerels and tunas, known from the

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of Eurasia. It contains several species known from the

Early Eocene In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age (geology), age or lowest stage (stratigraphy), stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between , is preceded by the Thanetian Age (part of the Paleocene) and is followed by th ...

of England and

Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ash ...

. The genus name originates from ''Coelopoma'', coined as a ''

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'' by

Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...

(1844). Two species in the genus were also named by Agassiz as ''nomina nuda'', until they were given by Woodward (1901). The following species are known: * †''E. colei'' Woodward, 1901 ''ex'' Agassiz, 1845 (

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) - early Eocene of England (

London Clay The London Clay Formation is a Sediment#Shores and shallow seas, marine formation (geology), geological formation of Ypresian (early Eocene Epoch, c. 54-50 million years ago) age which outcrop, crops out in the southeast of England. The London C ...

) (=''Coelopoma colei'' Agassiz, 1845) * †''E. curvatum'' Woodward, 1901 ''ex'' Owen, 1854 - early Eocene of England (London Clay) (=''Coelopoma laeve'' Agassiz, 1844, ''Coelopoma curvatum''

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, 1854) * †''E. gigas'' Casier, 1966 - early Eocene of England (London Clay) * †''E. portentosum'' Bannikov, 1985 - earliest Eocene of

(

Danata Formation The Danata Formation (or Danatinskaya, Danatinsk, Russian: Danata Svita) is an Ypresian, earliest Eocene to Middle Eocene sedimentary succession located in Turkmenistan. It is mostly famous for its fish-bearing horizons (Ichthyofauna). The formati ...

) The former species ''E. hopwoodi'' has been reassigned to its own genus, '' Micrornatus''.

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Prehistoric percomorph genera Ypresian genera Eocene fish of Europe Eocene fish of Asia Fossils of England Fossils of Turkmenistan Fossil taxa described in 1901 Taxa named by Arthur Smith Woodward

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