Mioplosus is an extinct genus of lates perches that lived from the early to middle Eocene (about 56 to 33.9 million years ago). Five species of the genus has been described, Mioplosus labracoides is found in the Green River Formation Lagerstätte.
Mioplosus is an extinct genus of lates perches that lived from the early to middle Eocene (about 56 to 33.9 million years ago). Five species of the genus has been described, Mioplosus labracoides is found in the Green River Formation Lagerstätte.
Mioplosus are similar to modern Latidae member, and like them have two dorsal fins, the anterior dorsal fin spiny and the posterior soft-rayed. Fossil Mioplosus up to have been found, but anything over is rare.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).