Bagre ornatus Aguilera et al. 2020 (Ariid catfish)
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Osteichthyes - Siluriformes - Ariidae
Full reference: O. Aguilera, R. T. Lopes, F. Rodriguez, T. M. Santos, C. Rodrigues-Almeida, P. Almeida, A. S. Machado and T. Moretti. 2020. Fossil sea catfish (Siluriformes; Ariidae) otoliths and in-skull otoliths from the Neogene of the Western Central Atlantic. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 101:102619
Belongs to Bagre according to O. Aguilera et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Bagre marinus, Bagre urumacoensis
Type specimen: UNEFM-PF-0380, a partial skull. Its type locality is Cerro La Cruz, which is in a Miocene terrestrial mudstone in the Castillo Formation of Venezuela.
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Cerro La Cruz
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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