Eobothus

Eobothus ('dawn Bothus) is an extinct genus of very small, fossil marine flatfish known from the Eocene. It is one of the oldest flatfish known from fossil remains.

It contains a single definitive species, E. minimus''' (Agassiz, 1839) from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. This species was initially erroneously described by Volta (1796) as a fossil specimen of the European plaice (synonym Pleuronectes quadratulus), and later officially described as Rhombus minimus by Agassiz in 1839. It was moved to its own genus, Eobothus, in 1914. In addition, two dubious fossil genera are also known: E. singhi Sahni & Choudhary, 1971 from the early Eocene of Rajasthan, India (Kapurdi Formation) and E. vialovi Berg, 1941 from the Middle Eocene of Uzbekistan. However, these species may not belong to this genus, or even be flatfish at all.