''Turkmene finitimus'' is an extinct lamprid from the Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the Upper

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. It lived

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ally with its close relative, '' Danatinia''. In life, ''T. finitimus'' would have resembled a spadefish with beak-like lips, or a very small opah (its closest living relative) with a bulging forehead.

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* ''The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae)'' by Giorgio Carnevale, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse,

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. Turkmenidae Paleocene genus extinctions Prehistoric ray-finned fish genera {{Lampriformes-stub