Gerpegezhus Bannikov and Carnevale 2012 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Gerpegezhidae

Full reference: A. F. Bannikov and G. Carnevale. 2012. A long-bodied centriscoid fish from the basal Eocene of Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia. Naturwissenschaften 99:379-389

Parent taxon: Gerpegezhidae according to A. F. Bannikov and G. Carnevale 2012

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Gerpegezhus paviai

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Type: Gerpegezhus paviai

Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Khieu River, Eocene (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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