†Eomyctophum limicola Danil'chenko 1960 (lanternfish)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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