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Extinct genus of fishes
Africentrum is an
extinct
genus of prehistoric
soldierfish that lived during the
Upper Miocene subepoch of what is now
Malta. It contains a single species, A. melitense.
[2]
[1]
[3] It has been either recovered as the
sister genus to
Myripristis or in a
polytomy with all the other genera in the subfamily.
[4]
[5]
See also
References
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b Sepkoski, Jack (2002).
"A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from
the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
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"PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
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^ Woodward, A. Smith (1887).
"VI.—On a New Species of Holocenturm from the Miocene of Malta; with a List of Fossil Berycidæ hitherto Described". Geological Magazine. 4 (8): 355–359.
doi:
10.1017/S0016756800193963.
ISSN
0016-7568.
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^ Dornburg, Alex; Moore, Jon; Beaulieu, Jeremy M.; Eytan, Ron I.; Near, Thomas J. (2014-12-19).
"The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes)". Evolution. 69 (1): 146–161.
doi:
10.1111/evo.12562.
ISSN
0014-3820.
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^ Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023).
"An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1).
doi:
10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571.
ISSN
1477-2019.