Neocybium parvidentatum Monsch and Bannikov 2011 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Scombridae

Full reference: K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov. 2011. New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102(4):253-300

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

Sister taxon: Neocybium rostratum

Type specimen: PIN 1877/5. Its type locality is Karagiye Depression, which is in a Bartonian marine horizon in the Shorym Svita Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Karagiye Depression

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