Abadzekhia

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Abadzekhia
Temporal range: Early Oligocene [1]
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Abadzekhia marinae.jpg
Restoration of A. marinae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scombriformes
Family: Gempylidae
Genus: Abadzekhia
Bannikov, 1985
Type species
Abadzekhia marinae
Bannikov, 1985
Species [2]
  • Abadzekhia tarletskovi Bannikov, 2005

Abadzekhia is an extinct genus of prehistoric snake mackerel that lived from the early Oligocene epoch in what is now the Caucasus Mountains of Southern Russia. [3] Fossils of this genus have also been found in Germany. [3]

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References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "Abadzekhia". Fossilworks . Gateway to the Paleobiology Database . Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  3. 1 2 "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-19.