Alosa genuina Danil'chenko 1960 (herring)

Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei

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

Belongs to Alosa according to P. G. Danil'chenko 1960

Sister taxa: Alosa bohemica, Alosa crassa, Alosa elongata, Alosa ganolytoides, Alosa numidica, Alosa paulicrenata, Alosa renoui, Alosa sagorensis, Alosa sapidissima, Alosa sculptata, Alosa tanaica

Type specimen: Its type locality is Gumista River, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Kuma Horizon Formation of Georgia

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Gumista River

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