Callipteryx

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

{{Not to be confused with|Calopteryx (disambiguation){{!}}Calopteryx}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|50|49|Early Eocene{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}}}

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| authority = Agassiz, 1838

| parent_authority = Agassiz, 1838

| taxon = Callipteryx speciosus

| synonyms = * †C. recticaudus Agassiz, 1838

| grandparent_authority = Jordan, 1905

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Callipteryx is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine percomorph fish that lived during the early Eocene.{{cite journal|last=Sepkoski |first=Jack |title=A compendium of fossil marine animal genera |journal=Bulletins of American Paleontology |volume=364 |page=560 |year=2002 |url=http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |accessdate=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2009-02-20 }}{{Cite web |title=PBDB Taxon |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=35974 |access-date=2024-04-16 |website=paleobiodb.org}}{{Cite journal |last=Bannikov |first=Alexandre F. |last2=Zorzin |first2=Roberto |date=2023 |title=On the osteology and relationships of the genus †Callipteryx Agassiz (Perciformes s.l.) from the Eocene of Bolca in northern Italy |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zorzin-Roberto/publication/380184951_On_the_osteology_and_relationships_of_the_genus_Callipteryx_Agassiz_Perciformes_sl_from_the_Eocene_of_Bolca_in_northern_Italy/links/66309e8308aa54017acd5127/On-the-osteology-and-relationships-of-the-genus-Callipteryx-Agassiz-Perciformes-sl-from-the-Eocene-of-Bolca-in-northern-Italy.pdf |journal=Studi e ricerche sui giacimenti terziari di Bolca |volume=XXIII |issue=20 |pages=35-44}} It is the only known member of the extinct family Callipterygidae.{{Cite journal |last=Laan |first=Richard van der |date=2018-10-11 |title=Family-group names of fossil fishes |url=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/597 |journal=European Journal of Taxonomy |language=en |issue=466 |doi=10.5852/ejt.2018.466 |issn=2118-9773}} It contains a single species, C. speciosus (=C. recticaudus), known from the famous Monte Bolca site of Italy.{{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}}

It was initially thought to have been a relative of weeverfishes.{{cite book |last=Frickhinger |first=Karl Albert |url=https://archive.org/details/fossilatlasfishe0000fric/page/882 |title=Fossil Atlas, Fishes |date=March 1996 |publisher=Tetra Print |isbn=978-1564651150 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fossilatlasfishe0000fric/page/882 882] |url-access=registration}} However, a more recent analysis suggests that it cannot be classified within any of the known percomorph groups.