Hipposyngnathus convexus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae

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

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

See also Fritzsche 1980

Sister taxa: Hipposyngnathus imporcitor, Hipposyngnathus neriticus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kuban River, which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Pshekha Horizon Formation of Azerbaijan

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Kuban River

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