Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Belongs to Palaeogadus according to P. G. Danil'chenko 1960
Sister taxa: Palaeogadus (Lotimorpha), Palaeogadus abbreviatus, Palaeogadus atropatanus, Palaeogadus compactus, Palaeogadus intergerinus, Palaeogadus nodosus, Palaeogadus ruisbroekensis, Palaeogadus serratus, Palaeogadus sinangulatus, Nemopteryx kubacskai, Nemopteryx elongatus, Nemopteryx crassus
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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