Lepidosiren Fitzinger 1837 (Australian lungfish)

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

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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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