Esox Linnaeus, 1758

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 Esox Linnaeus, 1758

Esox sp. — one epihyale (Nik 11 – 1/7, fig. 4, 3 ). L epihyale is 2.4 cm, width — 1.2 cm. Epihyale is similar in size and morphology to those in extant Northern pike. This species was also identified from the Early Pliocene strata of Priozernoe (RM), Kamenskoe and Kuchurgan on the territory of Southern Ukraine ( Tarashchuk, 1962).

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