Macroprosopon Capobianco et al., 2025

Capobianco, Alessio, Zouhri, Samir & Friedman, Mat, 2025, A long-snouted marine bonvtongue (Teleostei: Osteoglossidae) from the earlv Eocene of Morocco and the phvlogenetic affinities of marine osteoglossids, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203, pp. 1-31 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae015
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3110660-6D3B-438F-855A-9B50EE14F78B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15006520
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6A0B1E3C-FFCC-F066-FF6C-27B0DB99DE52
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Macroprosopon Capobianco et al.
status	gen. nov.

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† Macroprosopon Capobianco et al. , gen. nov.

ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0D894681-7DF7-4892-8198-D37EFFBCA20D .

Type species: † Macroprosopon hiltoni (monotypic).

Etymology: Generic name from the combination of the Ancient Greek makrós (‘long’) and prósōpon (‘face’), referring to the elongated snout.

Diagnosis: As for the type species.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Order	Osteoglossiformes
Family	Osteoglossidae

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