Taubateia
| Taubateia paraiba | |
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| Order: | Siluriformes
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| Genus: | Taubateia Malabarba & Lundberg, 2007
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| Species: | T. paraiba
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| Taubateia paraiba Malabarba & Lundberg, 2007
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Taubateia paraiba was a species of catfish from the family Loricariidae. It was found in the sediments of the in eastern São Paulo State, Brazil. The genus name Taubateia comes from the name Taubate, in reference to the basin where the fossil comes from. The species name paraiba comes from the name of the river Paraíba do Sul.
It is unclear to which subfamily T. paraiba belongs. The ventral skull length is 54.5 millimetres (2.15 in).[1]
References[]
- ^ Taubateia paraiba at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- Malabarba, Maria Claudia; Lundberg, John G. (2007). "A fossil loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricarioidea) from the Taubaté Basin, eastern Brazil". Neotropical Ichthyology. 5 (3): 263–270. doi:10.1590/S1679-62252007000300005.
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- Loricariidae
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