Danatinia

<i>Danatinia</i>

Danatinia

Extinct genus of fishes

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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D. casca was sympatric with its close relative, Turkmene. In life, it would have resembled a very small opah.


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