Danatinia

Danatinia
Temporal range: Early Ypresian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lampriformes
Family: Turkmenidae
Genus: Danatinia
Daniltshenko, 1968
Species:
D. casca
Binomial name
Danatinia casca
Daniltshenko, 1968

Danatinia is an extinct genus of lamprid fish from the Eocene. It contains a single species, D. casca from Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the earliest Ypresian of Turkmenistan. It was first named by Daniltshenko in 1968.[1]

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

  1. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-07-29.