†Doryrhamphus squalidus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)
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Actinopteri - Syngnathiformes - Syngnathidae
Alternative combination: Acanthognathus squalidus
Full reference: P. G. Danil'chenko. 1960. Bony fishes of the Maikop deposits of the Caucasus. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 78:1-247
Belongs to Doryrhamphus according to A. F. Bannikov et al. 2017
See also Danil'chenko 1960 and Wilson and Orr 2011
Sister taxa: Doryrhamphus melanopleura, Doryrhamphus paulus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Khristianovskoe, which is in an Oligocene/Miocene marine horizon in the Russian Federation
Ecology: nektonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at Khristianovskoe
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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