The youngest non-lepidosirenid lungfish of South America (Dipnoi, latest Paleocene–earliest Eocene, Argentina)

CIONE AL; GOUIRIC-CAVALLI S; GELFO JN; GOIN FJ

ALCHERINGA

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Año: 2010 vol. 35 p. 193 - 198

0311-5518

The first lungfish tooth plate from the Las Flores Formation, Chubut, southern Argentina, is described. This is the youngest ceratodontid known from the continent. In Africa, ceratodonts disappeared in the Eocene. Afterwards, they are only known from Australia until their extinction during the Pleistocene. The Las Flores tooth plate also represents the southernmost lungfish known since the Coniacian (early Late Cretaceous).