Danatinia
| Danatinia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lampriformes |
| Family: | †Turkmenidae |
| Genus: | † Daniltshenko, 1968 |
| Species: | †D. casca |
| Binomial name | |
| †Danatinia casca Daniltshenko, 1968 | |
Danatinia is an extinct genus of lamprid fish from the Eocene. It contains a single species, D. casca from Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the earliest Ypresian of Turkmenistan. It was first named by Daniltshenko in 1968.[1]
D. casca was sympatric with its close relative, Turkmene. In life, it would have resembled a very small opah.
External links
- Danatania at the Paleobiology Database
- The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae) by Giorgio Carnevale, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Pisa, Italy.