Geologica Belgica Geologica Belgica -  volume 16 (2013) 

First Triassic and oldest record of a South American amiiform fish: Caturus sp. from the Los Menucos Group (lower Upper Triassic), Río Negro province, Argentina

Sergio BOGAN, 

Fundación de Historia Natural “Félix de Azara”. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropología. CEBBAD - Universidad Maimónides. Hidalgo 775 piso 7 (1405BDB). Buenos Aires, Argentina. E-mail: sergiobogan@yahoo.com.ar

Louis TAVERNE, 

Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Direction opérationnelle Terre et Histoire de la Vie, rue Vautier, 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: louis.taverne@gmail.com

Federico AGNOLIN, 

Fundación de Historia Natural “Félix de Azara”. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales y Antropología. CEBBAD - Universidad Maimónides. Hidalgo 775 piso 7 (1405BDB). Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Abstract

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.

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Sergio BOGAN, Louis TAVERNE & Federico AGNOLIN, «First Triassic and oldest record of a South American amiiform fish: Caturus sp. from the Los Menucos Group (lower Upper Triassic), Río Negro province, Argentina», Geologica Belgica [En ligne], volume 16 (2013), 191-195 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/1374-8505/index.php?id=4195.