Eolamprogrammus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange|56|55|Earliest Ypresian}}

| parent_authority = Daniltshenko, 1968

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Eolamprogrammus senectus

| authority = Daniltshenko, 1968

}}

Eolamprogrammus ("dawn Lamprogrammus") is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine cusk-eel that lived during the earliest 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/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class |archivedate=2011-07-23 }} It contains a single species, E. senectus from the earliest Ypresian-aged{{Cite journal |last1=Bannikov |first1=A. F. |last2=Erebakan |first2=I. G. |date=2023-10-01 |title=On the Evolution of Some Groups of Marine Bony Fishes in the Cenozoic of the Tethys and Paratethys |journal=Paleontological Journal |language=en |volume=57 |issue=5 |pages=475–490 |bibcode=2023PalJ...57..475B |doi=10.1134/S0031030123050015 |issn=1555-6174}} Danata Formation of Turkmenistan.{{Cite journal |last1=Bannikov |first1=A. F. |last2=Parin |first2=N. N. |date=1996 |title=The List of Marine Fishes From Cenozoic (Upper Paleocene-Middle Miocene) Localities in Southern European Russia and Adjacent Countries |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266791672 |journal=Voprosy Ikhtiologii |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=149–161}} It may potentially represent an early member of the Neobythitinae.{{Cite journal |last=Carnevale |first=Giorgio |last2=Johnson |first2=G. David |date=2015-11-12 |title=A Cretaceous Cusk-Eel (Teleostei, Ophidiiformes) from Italy and the Mesozoic Diversification of Percomorph Fishes |url=https://meridian.allenpress.com/copeia/article-abstract/103/4/771/196429/A-Cretaceous-Cusk-Eel-Teleostei-Ophidiiformes-from |journal=Copeia |volume=103 |issue=4 |pages=771–791 |doi=10.1643/CI-15-236 |issn=0045-8511|url-access=subscription }}