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Lepidosiren
Taxonomy
Lepidosiren was named by Fitzinger (1837). It is extant.
It was assigned to Dipnoi by de Muizon et al. (1983); and to Lepidosirenidae by Bondesio and Pascual (1977), Miles (1977), Lundberg (1997) and Schultze (2004).
It was assigned to Dipnoi by de Muizon et al. (1983); and to Lepidosirenidae by Bondesio and Pascual (1977), Miles (1977), Lundberg (1997) and Schultze (2004).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1837 | Lepidosiren Fitzinger |
| 1977 | Lepidosiren Bondesio and Pascual p. 39 figs. Lam. I |
| 1977 | Lepidosiren Miles |
| 1983 | Lepidosiren de Muizon et al. |
| 1997 | Lepidosiren Lundberg p. 85 |
| 2004 | Lepidosiren Schultze p. 474 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Lepidosiren Fitzinger 1837
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†Lepidosiren megalos Silva Santos 1987
Lepidosiren paradoxa Fitzinger 1837 [South American lungfish]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Middle Miocene or 70.60000 to 11.60800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 66.0 Ma
Collections (30 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Bolivia (Cochabamba) | L. paradoxa (12855) | |
| Danian | Bolivia (Mizque) | L. paradoxa (13501) | |
| Thanetian - Ypresian | Peru (Puno) | L. paradoxa (132938) Lepidosirenidae indet. (28230) | |
| Ypresian | Argentina (Jujuy) | L. paradoxa (176658) | |
| Langhian | Colombia (Guajira) | L. sp. (190376) | |
| Middle Miocene | Colombia (Huila) | L. sp. (186805 186806) | |
| Laventan | Peru | L. sp. (213137) | |
| Laventan | Colombia (Huila) | L. paradoxa (186608 186624 186630 186639 186661 186662 186663 186664 186665 186666 186667 186668 186669 186671 186674 186675 186676 186677) L. sp., L. paradoxa (186683) | |
| Tortonian | Peru | L. sp. (176162) | |
| Tortonian | Brazil (Acre) | L. sp. (67385) |