Aulorhamphus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|38.4|Early to Middle Eocene}}

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| taxon = Aulorhamphus

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| authority = Zigno, 1887

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Aulorhamphus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish that lived from the early to middle Eocene. It contains four species known from the Early Eocene of Italy (Monte Bolca) and the Middle Eocene of Russia. It was an aulorhamphid, an extinct family of syngnathiform fishes.{{Cite web |title=PBDB |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35851 |access-date=2024-03-07 |website=paleobiodb.org}}{{Cite journal |last1=Carnevale |first1=G. |last2=Bannikov |first2=Alexandre F. |last3=Marramà |first3=G. |last4=Tyler |first4=James C. |last5=Zorzin. |first5=R. |date=2014 |title=The Bolca Fossil-Lagerstätte: A window into the Eocene World. 5. The Pesciara- Monte Postale Fossil-Lagerstätte: 2. Fishes and other vertebrates. Excursion guide |url=https://iris.unito.it/bitstream/2318/149338/1/Carnevale%20et%20al%202014%20The%20Pesciara%20F-L.%20Fishes%20and%20other%20vertebrates2.pdf |journal=Rendiconti della Società Paleontologica Italiana |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=i–xxvii |hdl=10088/25678}}{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=Alexandre F. |last2=Tyler |first2=James C. |date=2006 |title=A new species of the genus Aulorhamphus (Gasterosteiformes: Aulorhamphidae) from the Eocene of the Caucasus in southwestern Russia |url=https://bioone.org/journals/proceedings-of-the-biological-society-of-washington/volume-119/issue-1/0006-324X_2006_119_143_ANSOTG_2.0.CO_2/A-new-species-of-the-genus-Aulorhamphus-Gasterosteiformes--Aulorhamphidae/10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[143:ANSOTG]2.0.CO;2.full |journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |volume=119 |issue=1 |pages=143–149 |doi=10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[143:ANSOTG]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0006-324X}}{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Alison M. |date=2022-12-31 |title=Re-description and phylogenetic relationships of † Protosyngnathus sumatrensis (Teleostei: Syngnathoidei), a freshwater pipefish from the Eocene of Sumatra, Indonesia |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2022.2113832 |journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1080/14772019.2022.2113832 |issn=1477-2019}}

The following species are known:

• A. bolcensis (Steindachner, 1863) - Ypresian of Italy
• A. capellini Zigno, 1887- Ypresian of Italy
• A. caucasicus Bannikov & Tyler, 2006 - Lutetian/Bartonian of the North Caucasus, Russia
• A. chiarisorbiniae Bannikov & Tyler, 2011 - Ypresian of Italy