Abadzekhia Temporal range: | |
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Restoration of A. marinae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Family: | Gempylidae |
Genus: | † Abadzekhia Bannikov, 1985 |
Type species | |
Abadzekhia marinae Bannikov, 1985 | |
Other species [2] | |
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Abadzekhia is an extinct genus of prehistoric snake mackerel that lived from the early Oligocene epoch in what is now the North Caucasus of Southern Russia. [3] Fossils of this genus have also been found in Germany. [3]
It contains two species, A. marinae from an indeterminate locality in the North Caucasus of Russia and the Rauenberg fossil site of Germany, as well as A. tarletskovi from the Pshekha Formation of the North Caucasus. [4]
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Boreichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Triassic epoch in what is now Franz-Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.
Thyrsocles is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Upper Miocene subepoch.
Eoplectus is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine tetraodontiform fish that lived during the Eocene. It contains a single species, E. bloti from the Early Eocene-aged Monte Bolca site of Italy. It is the only member of the family Eoplectidae. It closely resembled pufferfishes and porcupinefishes, which it was related to.
Inichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine bony fish that lived during the Lopingian epoch. Fossils were recovered in the Kuznetsk Basin, European Russia.
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