Osteichthyes - Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Full reference: L. Agassiz. 1843. Recherches Sur Les Poissons Fossiles. Tome I (18me livraison) xxxii-188
Parent taxon: Lepidosirenidae according to C. S. Churcher and G. De Iuliis 2001
See also Miles 1977, Otero et al. 2015, Schultze 1993, Schultze 2004 and Werner 1993
Sister taxon: Lepidosiren
Subtaxa: Protopterus aethiopicus Protopterus amphibius Protopterus annectens Protopterus crassidens Protopterus dolloi Protopterus libycus Protopterus protopteroides Protopterus regulatus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (5 collections), Kenya (15)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Kenya (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Ethiopia (1), Kenya (4), Malawi (1), Tanzania (3), Uganda (2)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Kenya (1), Tanzania (2), Uganda (4)
• Miocene of Kenya (5), Uganda (2)
• Oligocene of Kenya (1), Oman (1)
• Eocene of Algeria (1), Libya (4), Mali (1)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Niger (1), Sudan (3)
Total: 63 collections including 64 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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