Danatinia

Danatinia
Temporal range: Early Ypresian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
Order: Lampriformes
Family: †Turkmenidae
Genus: †Danatinia
Daniltshenko, 1968
Species:
†D. casca
Binomial name
†Danatinia casca
Daniltshenko, 1968

Danatinia is an extinct genus of lamprid fish from the Eocene. It contains a single species, D. casca from Danata Formation Lagerstatten, of the earliest Ypresian of Turkmenistan. It was first named by Daniltshenko in 1968.

D. casca was sympatric with its close relative, Turkmene. In life, it would have resembled a very small opah.