Osteichthyes - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Alternative spelling: Leuciscus (Scardinius)
Full reference: H. E. Sauvage. 1873. Memoire sur la faune ichthyologigue de la periode Tertiare et plus specialement sur les poissons fossiles d'Oran et de Licata. Annales des Sciences Geologiques 4:1-272
Parent taxon: Cyprinidae according to O. Kovalchuk et al. 2026
See also Kovalchuk 2014 and Sauvage 1873
Sister taxa: Acrocheilus, Alisodon, Amblypharyngodon, Amyzon, Aspius, Barbinae, Barbus, Cultrinae, Cyprininae, Cyprinion, Cyprinus, Danioninae, Ecocarpia, Esox destructus, Gila, Gobio, Gobioninae, Hexapsephus, Idadon, Iquius, Labeoninae, Lavinia, Leuciscinae, Leuciscus, Mylocyprinus, Nemachilus, Opsariichthyinae, Orthodon, Palaeoleuciscus, Palaeotinca, Phoxininae, Planktophaga, Protothymallus, Ptychocheilus, Puntius, Rhodeus, Rutilus, Siphateles, Squaliobarbinae, Thynichthys, Tinca, Xenocyprinae
Subtaxa: Leuciscus (Scardinius) dumerilii Leuciscus (Scardinius) sicanus Scardinius ponticus
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Hungary (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
• Villafranchian of Slovakia (1)
• Pliocene of Germany (1), Moldova (1), Ukraine (1)
• Turolian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene of Germany (1), Italy (1), Moldova (2), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of Romania (1)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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