Lepidocottus

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Lepidocottus
Temporal range: Upper Oligocene
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Lepidocottus

Sauvage, 1875
Type species
Lepidocottus aries
Sauvage, 1875

Lepidocottus is a genus of goby that lived in what is now southern France in the uppermost Oligocene, 24 to 23 million years ago.[1]

References

  1. ^ 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.