Alloberyx is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish, possibly a holocentrid, that lived during the Santonian of Lebanon, from the Sahel Alma site. It contains two species, A. syriacus, initially described as a species of Pseudoberyx, and A. robustus, initially classified in the genus Serratocentrus.[1][2][3][4]

Alloberyx
Temporal range: Late Santonian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Holocentriformes (?)
Genus: Alloberyx
Gaudant, 1969
Species
  • A. syriacus (Pictet & Humbert, 1866)
  • A. robustus (Gaudant, 1969)

It is generally considered a stem-holocentrid, due to having close morphological similarities to modern holocentrid fish while lacking the characteristics known in the two modern subfamilies. However, another similar "holocentroid", Caproberyx, was more recently recovered as an indeterminate acanthomorph due to lacking many of the traits found among holocentrids, and it has been suggested that a similar level of uncertainty may apply to Alloberyx.[5][6]

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  3. ^ Murray, Alison M. (2014). "Mid-Cretaceous acanthomorph fishes with the description of a new species from the Turonian of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada". Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology. 1: 101–115. doi:10.18435/B5CC78. ISSN 2292-1389.
  4. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  5. ^ Marramà, Giuseppe; Luca, Giusberti; Papazzoni, Andrea C.; Carnevale, Giorgio (2021). "An Eocene soldierfish (Teleostei: Holocentridae) from Monte Baldo (NE Italy)". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana (in Italian). 60 (2). doi:10.4435/BSPI.2021.12. ISSN 0375-7633.
  6. ^ Andrews, James V.; Schein, Jason P.; Friedman, Matt (2023). "An earliest Paleocene squirrelfish (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentroidea) and its bearing on the timescale of holocentroid evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 21 (1). Bibcode:2023JSPal..2168571A. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2168571. ISSN 1477-2019.