Biology:Corydoras revelatus
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Short description: Extinct species of fish
| Corydoras revelatus | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Callichthyidae |
| Genus: | Corydoras |
| Species: | C. revelatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Corydoras revelatus Cockerell, 1936
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Corydoras revelatus is an extinct species of callichthyid catfish known from a single specimen found in Late Paleocene strata of the Mais Gordo Formation in Salta, Argentina . According to chronological dating of the strata, the fossil specimen is about 58.2–58.5 million years old.
Compared to modern species, C. revelatus has a short, comparatively rounded head, and rather low-set eyes. Although the species's position within the genus Corydoras is tentative and unresolved, its anatomy confirms that it is a member of the subfamily, Corydoradinae, and demonstrates that the callichthyids had already diverging or diversifying before the end of the Paleocene.
References
- Lundberg, Sullivan, Discovery of African roots for the Mesoamerican Chiapas catfish, Lacantunia enigmatica, requires an ancient intercontinental passage [1]
Wikidata ☰ Q5173716 entry
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