Pseudotetrapturus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

Actinopteri - Scombriformes - Palaeorhynchidae

Alternative spelling: Pseudotetrapterus

Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247

Parent taxon: Palaeorhynchidae according to K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov 2011

See also Danil'chenko 1960, Danil'chenko 1980, Fierstine 2006, Schultz 1987 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Aglyptorhynchinae, Aglyptorhynchus, Enniskillenus, Homorhynchus, Palaeorhynchus

Subtaxa: Pseudotetrapturus luteus

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Ecology: nektonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene to Miocene of Georgia (1 collection)

• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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