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Austropleuropholis

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Austropleuropholis
Temporal range: Kimmeridgian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Family: Pleuropholidae
Genus: Austropleuropholis
de Saint Seine, 1955
Species:
A. lombardi
Binomial name
Austropleuropholis lombardi
de Saint Seine, 1955

Austropleuropholis is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Late Jurassic.[1][2] It contains a single species, A. lombardi, from the Kimmeridigian[2] of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from the terrestrial/freshwater series of the Stanleyville Formation.[3][4][5]

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  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. ^ a b Caillaud, Alexis; Blanpied, Christian; Delvaux, Damien (2017-08-01). "The Upper Jurassic Stanleyville Group of the eastern Congo Basin: An example of perennial lacustrine system". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 132: 80–98. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2017.05.002. ISSN 1464-343X.
  3. ^ "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  4. ^ "New data on Pleuropholis decastroi (Teleostei, Pleuropholidae), a "pholidophoriform" fish from the Lower Cretaceous of the Eurafrican Mesogea". ricerca.unich.it. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  5. ^ López-Arbarello, Adriana; Rauhut, Oliver W. M.; Moser, Katrin (2008). "Jurassic fishes of Gondwana". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 63 (4): 586–612. Retrieved 2024-05-06.