Kingdom Animalia Class Actinopterygii Family Turkmenidae Rank Species | Phylum Chordata Order Lampriformes Genus Turkmene | |
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Similar Turkmenidae, Bathysoma, Syrian wild ass, Turkmenian kulan, Mongolian wild ass | ||
Turkmene finitimus is an extinct lamprid from the Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the Upper Paleocene of Turkmenistan. It lived sympatrically with its close relative, Danatinia.
In life, T. finitimus would have resembled a spadefish with beak-like lips, or a very small opah (its closest living relative) with a bulging forehead.
References
Turkmene Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA