Hippocampus sarmaticus
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| Hippocampus sarmaticus Temporal range: Middle Miocene | |
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| Artist's reconstruction with the smaller S. slovenicus on the right | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Syngnathiformes |
| Family: | Syngnathidae |
| Genus: | Hippocampus |
| Species: | †H. sarmaticus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hippocampus sarmaticus Žalohar, Hiti, Križnar, 2009[1] | |
Hippocampus sarmaticus is an extinct species of seahorse, found in 2005 in the coprolitic horizon of the Tunjice hills Lagerstätte in Slovenia, along with the related Hippocampus slovenicus.