Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Belongs to Syngnathus according to P. G. Danil'chenko 1960
See also Ciobanu 1977
Sister taxa: Syngnathus albyi, Syngnathus altus, Syngnathus avus, Syngnathus breviculus, Syngnathus californiensis, Syngnathus carinatus, Syngnathus emeritus, Syngnathus euchrous, Syngnathus incompletus, Syngnathus insulae, Syngnathus leptorhynchus, Syngnathus macrobrachium, Syngnathus opisthopterus, Siphostoma exile, Siphostoma auliscus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Belaya river, upstream of Abadzekhskaya (PIN collection 4705), which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in the Russian Federation
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Romania (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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