Aluvarus
| Aluvarus praeimperialis Temporal range: Rupelian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Infraphylum: | Gnathostomata |
| Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | ?Perciformes |
| Suborder: | ?Acanthuroidei |
| Family: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | Aluvarus |
| Species: | A. praeimperialis |
| Binomial name | |
| Aluvarus praeimperialis (Arambourg), 1967 | |
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Aluvarus praeimperialis is an extinct bony fish, known from two headless fossil specimens found in the Elam Formation, a Lower Oligocene stratum from the Rupelian epoch, of what is now Iran. A. praeimperialis was originally thought to be a luvar, described as "Luvarus praeimperialis," as it was thought to be a predecessor to the modern luvar. A later reexamination of the specimens showed that they were too incomplete to demonstrate such a conclusion, and were renamed "Aluvarus," meaning "Not" or "Different than Luvar."
See also
References
Bannikov, A, Tyler, J: "Phylogenetic Revision of the Fish Families Luvaridae and †Kushlukiidae (Acanthuroidei), with a New Genus and Two New Species of Eocene Luvarids"
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