†Protobrotula Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)
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Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Phycidae
Synonym: Ensigadus Gaemers 1978
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Parent taxon: Phycidae according to W. Schwarzhans and A. Bratischko 2011
See also Danil'chenko 1980, Gaemers 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Palaeomorrhua, Symmetrosulcus
Subtaxa: Protobrotula sobijevi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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