Asineops
Sign in to saveAsineops is an enigmatic genus of extinct freshwater ray-finned fish from the Eocene. It is the only member of the family Asineopidae and contains a single species, A. squamifrons, from the famous Green River Formation of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. It was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1870. The name comes from the Greek for "donkey-faced".
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Asineops is an enigmatic genus of extinct freshwater ray-finned fish from the Eocene. It is the only member of the family Asineopidae and contains a single species, A. squamifrons, from the famous Green River Formation of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. It was described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1870. The name comes from the Greek for "donkey-faced".
Asineops is known from all three prehistoric lakes that would eventually become the Green River Formation, although it is only common in the former Lake Gosiute's deposits. It is extremely rare in the famous Fossil Lake deposits.
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