Extinct genus of fishes
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Eolophotes ("dawn "Lophotes"") is an extinct genus of prehistoric crestfish that inhabited the northeastern Tethys Ocean during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. lenis, known from the Lutetian-aged Dabakhan Formation of Georgia. It is a diminutive, poorly-known species, but represents the oldest fossil record of the group. However, Brownstein &amp; Near (2023) found the Lophotidae to be potentially non-monophyletic, and "Eolophotes" to be a member of the Taeniosomi with uncertain placement.