Trachicaranx

Trachicaranx tersus is an extinct primitive, pompano-like jack fish from what is now Turkmenistan. It lived in an ocean upwelling with its relative, Archaeus oblongus during the Thanetian epoch of the late Paleocene. Some incomplete fossil specimens were once identified as being a separate species, "Uylyaichthys eugeniae."

Trachicaranx
Temporal range: Thanetian
Archaeus and T. tersus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Carangiformes
Family: Carangidae
Genus: Trachicaranx
Daniltshenko, 1968[1]
Species:
T. tarsus
Binomial name
Trachicaranx tarsus
Daniltshenko, 1968
Synonyms
  • Uylyaichthys eugeniae

References

  1. "Taxonomy Details for Trachicaranx". Arctos. Retrieved 30 November 2019.


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