A new genus and species of Heroini (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from the early Eocene of southern South America

The Lumbrera Formation is the uppermost unit of the Salta Group, which crops out in northwestern Argentina. The paleoenvironment of the Lumbrera Formation is interpreted as a perennial lake deposited under temperate climatic conditions during the early to middle Eocene. Its fossil content is made up...

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Main Authors: Patricia Alano Perez, Maria Claudia Malabarba, Cecilia del Papa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia
Series:Neotropical Ichthyology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252010000300008&lng=en&tlng=en