Scardinius Bonaparte, 1837

Kovalchuk, О. М., Marareskul, V. A., Zakharov, D. S. & Obadă, T. F., 2015, Early Pliocene Sturgeons And Bony Fishes From The Dniester Valley (Republic Of Moldova), Vestnik Zoologii 49 (1), pp. 49-56 : 53

Genus Scardinius Bonaparte, 1837

Scardinius erythrophthalmus (Linnaeus, 1758) — one pharyngeal tooth (Ut 12 – 1/4, fig. 3, 3 ). The conical tooth is hooked at the tip. Grinding surface is narrow with a higher edge that has 7 robust pointed jags and a lower edge without jags. Hook is robust and angle of grinding surface is 20 degrees. HPT is 6.1 mm, WPT — 2.5 mm. Scardinius erythrophthalmus is also known from the Kamenskoe in Southern Ukraine ( Tarashchuk, 1962).

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Fig. 3. Isolated pharyngeal teeth of carp fishes: 1–2 — Rutilus sp.; 3 — Scardinius erythrophthalmus;