Austropleuropholis

Austropleuropholis Temporal range: Kimmeridgian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Family:	† Pleuropholidae
Genus:	† Austropleuropholis de Saint Seine, 1955
Species:	†A. lombardi
Binomial name
†Austropleuropholis lombardi de Saint Seine, 1955

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 ^[2] of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the terrestrial/freshwater series of the Stanleyville Formation. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

See also

• List of prehistoric bony fish genera

References

1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
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. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.05.002. ISSN   1464-343X.
3. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
4. "New data on Pleuropholis decastroi (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae), a "pholidophoriform" fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Eurafrican Mesogea". ricerca.unich.it. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
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. Retrieved 2024-05-06.

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