Osteichthyes - 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: Syngnathiformes according to R. van der Laan 2019
See also Bannikov and Carnevale 2012
Sister taxa: Aulorhamphidae, Aulostomidae, Aulostomoidea, Callionymoidei, Centriscidae, Dactylopteroidei, Fistularioididae, Macrorhamphosidae, Mulloidei, Paraeoliscidae, Parasynarcualidae, Pegasidae, Rhamphosidae, Solenostomidae, Syngnathoidei, Urosphenidae
Subtaxa: Gerpegezhus
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (5 collections), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence