Hemithyrsites maicopicus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes

Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247

Belongs to Hemithyrsites according to K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov 2011

See also Danil'chenko 1980

Sister taxa: Hemithyrsites alatus, Hemithyrsites armatus

Type specimen: PIN 484/131. Its type locality is Dagestanskaya, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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