Danatinia

Danatinia Temporal range: Thanetian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Lampriformes
Family:	Turkmenidae
Genus:	Danatinia
Species:	D. casca

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

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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