Austropleuropholis Explained

Austropleuropholis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic.[1] [2] It contains a single species, A. lombardi, from the Kimmeridigian of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the terrestrial/freshwater series of the Stanleyville Formation.[3] [4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Sepkoski . Jack . A compendium of fossil marine animal genera . Bulletins of American Paleontology . 364 . 560 . 2002 . 2009-02-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110723131237/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class . 2011-07-23 .
  2. Caillaud . Alexis . Blanpied . Christian . Delvaux . Damien . 2017-08-01 . The Upper Jurassic Stanleyville Group of the eastern Congo Basin: An example of perennial lacustrine system . Journal of African Earth Sciences . 132 . 80–98 . 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.05.002 . 1464-343X.
  3. Web site: PBDB . 2024-02-26 . paleobiodb.org.
  4. Web site: New data on Pleuropholis decastroi (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae), a “pholidophoriform” fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Eurafrican Mesogea . 2024-02-26 . ricerca.unich.it.
  5. López-Arbarello . Adriana . Rauhut . Oliver W. M. . Moser . Katrin . 2008 . Jurassic fishes of Gondwana . Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina . 63 . 4 . 586-612 . 2024-05-06 .