Hemithyrsites Sauvage 1873 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes

Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1873. Memoire sur la faune ichthyologigue de la periode Tertiare et plus specialement sur les poissons fossiles d'Oran et de Licata. Annales des Sciences Geologiques 4:1-272

Parent taxon: Trichiuroidea according to K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov 2011

See also Arambourg 1925, Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Sauvage 1873 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Argestichthys

Subtaxa: Hemithyrsites alatus Hemithyrsites armatus Hemithyrsites maicopicus

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Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Algeria (1 collection), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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