†Pseudotetrapturus luteus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Palaeorhynchidae
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Belongs to Pseudotetrapturus according to K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov 2011
See also Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980 and Fierstine 2006
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 1413/50. Its type locality is Sulak River near Miatly, which is in a Chattian marine horizon in the Maykop Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.