Eomyctophum limicola Danil'chenko 1960 (lanternfish)

Actinopteri - Myctophiformes - Myctophidae

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

Belongs to Eomyctophum according to P. Constantin 1999

See also Ciobanu 1977, Danil'chenko 1960 and Jerzmanska 1968

Sister taxa: Eomyctophum broncus, Eomyctophum cozlae, Eomyctophum koraense, Eomyctophum menneri, Eomyctophum porokawa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Kuban River, which is in a Rupelian marine horizon in the Pshekha Horizon Formation of Azerbaijan

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Romania (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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