Bregmacerina is an extinct genus of prehistoric marine ray-finned fish, most likely a codlet, that lived during the early part of the Miocene epoch.[2][1][3] It contains a single species, B. antiqua, from the Burdigalian Sakaraul Horizon Formation of North Caucasus, Russia.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Bregmacerotidae |
| Genus: | †Bregmacerina Daniltshenko, 1957 |
| Species: | †B. antiqua
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| †Bregmacerina antiqua (Smirnov, 1936)
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Bregmacerina inhabited the Paratethys Sea. There is some dispute as to whether it is a codlet, as while it shares traits with Bregmaceros in the reduction of the first dorsal fin, it differs in having undivided second dorsal and anal fins. However, an alternative taxonomic placement has not been suggested.[5]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
- ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-02.
- ^ Books, L. L. C. (May 2010). Miocene Fish: Megalodon, Carcharocles Angustidens, Mene, Tunjice Hills Seahorse, Megapiranha, Lampris Zatima, Oncorhynchus Rastrosus. General Books LLC. ISBN 9781157001775.
- ^ Bannikov, A. F. (1997). "The list of marine fishes from Cenozoic (Upper Paleocene-Middle Miocene) localities in southern European Russia and adjacent countries". J Ichthyol. 37: 133.
- ^ Přikryl, Tomáš; Brzobohatý, Rostislav; Gregorová, Růžena (2016-03-01). "Diversity and distribution of fossil codlets (Teleostei, Gadiformes, Bregmacerotidae): review and commentary". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 96 (1): 13–39. doi:10.1007/s12549-015-0222-z. ISSN 1867-1608.
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