Lepidosiren Fitzinger 1837 (Australian lungfish)
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Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Parent taxon: Lepidosirenidae according to J. Lundberg 1997
See also Bondesio and Pascual 1977, de Muizon et al. 1983, Miles 1977 and Schultze 2004
Sister taxon: Protopterus
Subtaxa: Lepidosiren megalos Lepidosiren paradoxa
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (1 collection), Colombia (22), Peru (2)
• Eocene of Argentina (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Peru (2)
• Paleocene of Bolivia (1)
• Cretaceous of Bolivia (1)
Total: 30 collections including 31 occurrences
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