†Hipposyngnathus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)
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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
Parent taxon: Eogastrophinae according to T. Přikryl et al. 2016
See also Danil'chenko 1960, Fierstine et al. 2012, Fritzsche 1980, Jerzmanska 1968 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Hipposyngnathus convexus Hipposyngnathus imporcitor Hipposyngnathus neriticus
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (3: California collections)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Poland (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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