Danatinia

Danatinia Temporal range: Early Ypresian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific 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.