Doryrhamphus squalidus Danil'chenko 1960 (ray-finned fish)

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

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