Scomber cubanicus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae

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

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

See also Danil'chenko 1960 and Danil'chenko 1980

Sister taxa: Scomber australasicus, Scomber caucasica, Scomber colias, Scomber gnarus, Scomber japonicus, Scomber oligocenicus, Scomber sanctaemonicae, Scomber scombrus, Scomber voitestii

Type specimen: PIN 484/11. Its type locality is Khadyzhenskaya RR Station, which is in a Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation.

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Khadyzhenskaya RR Station

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