Trachicaranx

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Trachicaranx
Temporal range: Thanetian
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Archaeus and T. tersus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Trachicaranx
Daniltshenko, 1968 [1]
Species:
T. tarsus
Binomial name
Trachicaranx tarsus
Daniltshenko, 1968
Synonyms
  • Uylyaichthys eugeniaeProkofiev, 2002

Trachicaranx tersus is an extinct primitive, pompano-like jack fish from what is now Turkmenistan. [2] It lived in an ocean upwelling with its relative, Archaeus oblongus during the Thanetian epoch of the late Paleocene. Some incomplete fossil specimens were once identified as being a separate species, "Uylyaichthys eugeniae." [3]

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References

  1. "Taxonomy Details for Trachicaranx". Arctos. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  2. "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-05-19.
  3. Bannikov, Alexander (2009). Fossil Vertebrates of Russia and Adjacent Countries. Fossil Acanthopterygians Fishes (Teleostei, Acanthopterygii) (in Russian). GEOS, Moscow.