Eochanna chorlakkiensis

Eochanna chorlakkiensis
Temporal range: Middle Eocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Channidae
Genus: Eochanna
Roe, 1991
Species: E. chorlakkiensis
Binomial name
Eochanna chorlakkiensis
Roe, 1991

Eochanna chorlakkiensis is an extinct prehistoric snakehead. The fish lived in the Lutetian age of the Middle Eocene (41-48 million years ago)[1] in the area of what is now the Kuldana Formation near Chorlakki, Pakistan.[2]

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