Redescription and phylogenetic position of the fossil killifish Carrionellus diumortuus White from the Lower Miocene of Ecuador (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)

Cybium

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-187

  Costa, Wilson J E M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Andes; Carrionellus diumortuus; Cyprinodontidae; Osteology; Paleontology; South america

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255177568     PISSN: 03990974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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