Aulostomus fractus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Aulostomidae

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

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

Sister taxon: Aulostoma bolcense

Type specimen: Its type locality is Belaya river, upstream of Abadzekhskaya (PIN collection 4705), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Russian Federation

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Belaya river, upstream of Abadzekhskaya (PIN collection 4705)

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