†Palaeotroctes Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)
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Osteichthyes - Alepocephaliformes - Alepocephalidae
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Parent taxon: Alepocephalidae according to P. G. Danil'chenko 1960
Sister taxa: Alepocephalus, Xenodermichthys
Subtaxa: Palaeotroctes strictus
Type: Palaeotroctes strictus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Kuban River (Oligocene of Russian Federation)
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