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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bogan, Sergio
• Taverne, Louis
• Agnolin, Federico

Titel

First triassic and oldest record of a South American amiiform fish: Caturus sp. from the Los Menucos Group , Rio Negro province, Argentina

Ist Teil von

• Geologica Belgica, 2013-01, Vol.16 (3), p.191

Ort / Verlag

Geologica Belgica

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Some cranial fragments from the jaw region and the opercular series of the amiiform fish taxon Caturus sp. (Actinopterygii, Halecomorphi) are described from the continental Upper Trias of Los Menucos (Rio Negro province, Patagonia, Argentina). This find represents the first Triassic amiiform record and the first undoubted fossil caturid record from South America. KEYWORDS: Amiiformes, Caturus sp., skull bones, continental Upper Trias, Patagonia, Argentina.