Palaeorhynchus
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Palaeorhynchus is a genus of prehistoric fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...

 from Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 that was described by Wagner in 1860. One fossil
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

 found is dated (Early Oligocene).
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