Danatinia
Danatinia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Lampriformes |
Family: | †Turkmenidae |
Genus: | †Danatinia Daniltshenko, 1968 |
Species: | †D. casca |
Binomial name | |
†Danatinia casca Daniltshenko, 1968 |
Danatinia is an extinct genus of lamprid fish from the Eocene. It contains a single species, D. casca from Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the earliest Ypresian of Turkmenistan. It was first named by Daniltshenko in 1968.[1]
D. casca was sympatric with its close relative, Turkmene. In life, it would have resembled a very small opah.
External links
[edit]- Danatania at the Paleobiology Database
- The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae) by Giorgio Carnevale, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Pisa, Italy.