Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Trichiuridae

Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1980. Otryad Perciformes. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 178:115-169

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

See also Danil'chenko 1980

Sister taxa: Lepidopus albyi, Lepidopus anguis, Lepidopus caudatus, Lepidopus gouanianus, Lepidopus lerichei, Lepidopus proargenteus

Type specimen: PIN 2181/65

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Sumgait River, Gobustan, member 12 Burdigalian (Miocene of Azerbaijan)

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