Razelainia paradoxa Carnevale 2007 (grenadiers)

Osteichthyes - Gadiformes - Macrouridae

Full reference: G. Carnevale. 2007. New gadiform fishes (Teleostei, Gadiformes) from the Miocene of Algeria. Journal of African Earth Sciences 47:95-111

Belongs to Razelainia according to G. Carnevale 2007

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN ORA1219, a partial skeleton (incom- plete fish). Its type locality is Raz-el-Ain, which is in a Messinian marine horizon in the Raz-el-Ain Formation of Algeria.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Raz-el-Ain

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