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The oldest known catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Asia (India, Late Cretaceous)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Alberto L. Cione  and
G. V. R. Prasad
Alberto L. Cione
Affiliation:
Departamento Científico Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
G. V. R. Prasad
Affiliation:
P.G. Department of Geology, University of Jammu, 180 006 Jammu, India
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Siluriformes constitute an important monophyletic group of mainly freshwater fishes (Fink and Fink, 1996). Presently, there are about 35 families with over 2,000 species in all continents except Antarctica (Lundberg, 1993; Nelson, 1994); however, at least in the Eocene, they also inhabited Antarctica as well (Grande and Eastman, 1986). A small number of catfishes (most of the ariids and many of the plotosids) are marine and some species of other families can enter brackish waters (Nelson, 1994). Pre-Cenozoic catfishes are extremely rare outside of South America.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , January 2002 , pp. 190 - 193
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