†Taubateia paraiba Malabarba and Lundberg 2007 (catfish)
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Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Loricariidae
Full reference: M. C. Malabarba and J. G. Lundberg. 2007. A fossil loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricarioidea) from the Taubaté Basin, eastern Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology 5(3):263-270
Belongs to Taubateia according to M. C. Malabarba and J. G. Lundberg 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: DGM 17-P, a partial skeleton (Skull and anteriormost vertebrae). Its type locality is Tremembé shales, which is in an Oligocene lacustrine shale in the Tremembé Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Tremembé shales
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