Gerpegezhus paviai 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

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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