†Gerpegezhus paviai Bannikov and Carnevale 2012 (ray-finned fish)
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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
Belongs to Gerpegezhus according to A. F. Bannikov and G. Carnevale 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 5314/1, a skeleton. Its type locality is Khieu River, Eocene, which is in a Ypresian marine claystone in the Abazinka Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Khieu River, Eocene
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