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

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Ecology:

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

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