Polyipnoides Danilt'chenko 1962 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Stomiatiformes - Sternoptychidae

Full reference: P. G. Danilt'chenko. 1962. Fishes from the Dabakhanian Formation of Georgia. Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal 1:111-126

Parent taxon: Sternoptychidae according to P. G. Danilt'chenko 1962

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Argyripnus, Argyropelecus, Danaphos, Discosternon, Eosternoptyx, Maurolicus, Polyipnus, Sternoptychidarum, Sternoptyx, Valenciennellus

Subtaxa: Polyipnoides levis

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Type: Polyipnoides levis

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Dabakhana Gorge, Tbilisi (Eocene of Georgia)

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