Palaeoatherina

Palaeoatherina is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

Description

It may have resembled the brook silverside. It resembles an eel or a sardine in some drawings. We don't know what it looks like. It was a slender ray-finned fish. It was long but shorter than an eel.

Classification

Palaeoatherina is a prehistoric atheriniform fish. It is not assigned to any family, and is only assigned to the order Atheriniformes. Some people think it is assigned to orders like Perciformes, Labriformes, Clupeiformes, Esociformes, or Osmeriformes.

Related pages

• Atheriniformes, the order where Palaeoatherina is placed
• Leedsichthys
• Rhenanoperca