Lepidocottus is a genus of gobies that lived in what is now southern France in the uppermost Oligocene, 24 to 23 million years ago.[1]
Lepidocottus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Eleotridae |
Genus: | †Lepidocottus Sauvage, 1875 |
Type species | |
Lepidocottus aries Sauvage, 1875
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References
edit- ^ Gierl C, Reichenbacher B, Gaudant J, Erpenbeck D, Pharisat A (2013). "An Extraordinary Gobioid Fish Fossil from Southern France". PLOS ONE. 8 (5): e64117. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064117. PMC 3655028. PMID 23691158. e64117.