†Champsodon grossheimi Danil'chenko 1960
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Actinopteri - Acanthomorphata - Champsodontidae
Alternative combinations: Myersiscus grossheimi, Pseudoscopelus grossheimi
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Belongs to Champsodon according to A. F. Bannikov 1998
See also Danil'chenko 1980
Sister taxa: Champsodon timaruensis, Champsodon vonderhochti
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sulak River near Miatly, which is in a Chattian marine horizon in the Maykop Formation of the Russian Federation
Distribution:
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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