Kingdom Animalia Family Syngnathidae Genus Hippocampus Phylum Chordata Order Syngnathiformes | Class Actinopterygii Subfamily Hippocampinae Scientific name Hippocampus slovenicus Rank Species | |
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Similar Hippocampus sarmaticus, Hippocampus debelius, Lichtenstein's seahorse, Hippocampus colemani, Bullneck seahorse | ||
Hippocampus slovenicus is an extinct species of seahorse found in 2005 in the coprolitic horizon of the Tunjice hills Lagerstätte in Slovenia along with remains of the related species Hippocampus sarmaticus. The horizon dates 13 million years back to the lower Sarmatian during the middle Miocene period, making the two species the earlier known seahorse fossils in the world. The remains consist mostly of juvenile specimens and of head and backbones of adults.
The animals are believed to have lived among seagrasses and macroalgae in the temperate shallow coastal waters of the western part of the central Paratethys.
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