Trachicaranx

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
Archaeus and T. tersus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Carangiformes
Suborder:	Carangoidei
Family:	Carangidae
Genus:	†Trachicaranx Daniltshenko, 1968[1]
Species:	†T. tarsus
Binomial name
†Trachicaranx tarsus Daniltshenko, 1968
Synonyms
Uylyaichthys eugeniae Prokofiev, 2002