- Turkmene
Taxobox
name = "Turkmene"
fossil_range=Thanetian
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Lampriformes
familia =Turkmenidae
genus = "Turkmene "
species = "T. finitimus""Turkmene finitimus" is an extinct lamprid from the
Danata Formation Lagerstatten , of the UpperPaleocene ofTurkmenistan . It livedsympatric ally with its close relative, "Danatinia ".In life, "T. finitimus" would have resembled a
spadefish with beak-like lips, or a very smallopah (its closest living relative) with a bulging forehead.External links
* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=35830&is_real_user=1 "Turkmene"] 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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