Turkmenidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = Thanetian-Late Oligocene<br />~{{fossil range|58|25}} | image = Turkmenidae.JPG | image_caption = ''Turkmene'' and ''Danatinia'' | taxon = Turkmenidae | authority = Daniltshenko, 1968 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = * ''Analectis'' * ''Danatinia'' * ''Turkmene'' }}

'''Turkmenidae''' is an extinct family of lamprids from the Paleogene of the west-central Asia, in what was formerly the Peri-Tethys Ocean.<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=249203]"The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae)"</ref> They were small, disk-shaped fish that bore a strong resemblance to their closest living relatives, the opahs.

''Turkmene'' and ''Danatinia'' are found in the Thanetian epoch (of the Paleocene) sections of the Danata Formation of Turkmenistan. ''Analectis'' is found in Late Oligocene strata in North Caucasus, Russia. After the extinction of ''Analectis'', Turkmenidae disappears from the fossil record.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=S.v |first=Popov |last2=M.a |first2=Akhmetiev |last3=E.m |first3=Bugrova |last4=A.v |first4=Lopatin |last5=O.v |first5=Amitrov |last6=A.s |first6=Andreyeva-Grigorovich |last7=N.i |first7=Zaporozhets |last8=V.v |first8=Zherikhin |last9=V.a |first9=Krasheninnikov |last10=I.a |first10=Nikolaeva |last11=E.k |first11=Sytchevskaya |last12=I.g |first12=Shcherba |date=2002 |title=BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHERN PERI-TETHYS FROM THE LATE EOCENE TO THE EARLY MIOCENE: PART 2. EARLY OLIGOCENE |url=https://repository.geologyscience.ru/handle/123456789/29319 |journal=Paleontological Journal |volume=36 |issn=0031-0301}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Carnevale |first=Giorgio |date=2004 |title=The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae) |url=https://repository.geologyscience.ru/bitstream/handle/123456789/36960/Carn_04.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |journal=Geological Magazine |language=en |volume=141 |issue=5 |pages=573–582 |doi=10.1017/S0016756804009598 |issn=1469-5081}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * K. A. Monsch and A. F. Bannikov. 2011. New taxonomic synopses and revision of the scombroid fishes (Scombroidei, Perciformes), including billfishes, from the Cenozoic of territories of the former USSR. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 102(4):253-300

Category:Turkmenidae † Category:Paleocene first appearances Category:Oligocene extinctions Category:Paleogene animals of Asia Category:Paleontology in Turkmenistan