Eodiaphyodus [SEP] parent taxon
Eodiaphyodus
Eodiaphyodus is a genus of Elopiformes fish that is classified in the suborder Albuloidea. It is related to the modern Tarpon. This fish lived in what is now Morocco during the Late Cretaceous Period. It crushed its food with bony plates found in the back of its throat.
Classification.
Classification Species.
- "Eodiaphyodus granulosus"
See also.
- "Coriops"
- Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
- List of prehistoric bony fish (Osteichthyes)
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of