Trachicaranx tersus is an extinct primitive, pompano-like jack fish from what is now Turkmenistan.[2] 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."[3]
| Trachicaranx Temporal range: Thanetian | |
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| Archaeus and T. tersus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Carangiformes |
| Family: | Carangidae |
| Genus: | †Trachicaranx Daniltshenko, 1968[1] |
| Species: | †T. tarsus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Trachicaranx tarsus Daniltshenko, 1968 | |
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