Danatinia
Danatinia casca is an extinct lamprid from Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the Upper Paleocene of Turkmenistan. It was first named by Daniltshenko in 1968.
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| Genus: | Danatinia |
| Species: | D. casca |
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.
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