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Kooiichthys jono n. gen. n. sp., a primitive catfish (Teleostei, Siluriformes) from the marine Miocene of southern South America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2016

María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta ,
Alberto Luis Cione ,
Mario Alberto Cozzuol  and
Juan Marcos Mirande
María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta
Affiliation:
División Zoología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina 〈azpeli@gmail.com〉
Alberto Luis Cione
Affiliation:
División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, 1900 La Plata, Argentina 〈acione@museo.fcnym.unlp.edu.ar〉
Mario Alberto Cozzuol
Affiliation:
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos, 6627 Pampulha, 31270-910, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 〈mario.cozzuol@gmail.com〉
Juan Marcos Mirande
Affiliation:
Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251, San Miguel de Tucumán (4000), Tucumán, Argentina 〈mcmirande@gmail.com〉
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Abstract

A specimen of a remarkable new catfish genus and species was collected in middle/late Miocene marine beds of the Puerto Madryn Formation at the base of the marine cliff of the sea lion colony area near Puerto Pirámide, southern coast of Península Valdés, northeastern Patagonia, Argentina. Siluriforms (catfishes) constitute a most important monophyletic ostariophysan group of mainly freshwater fishes that occurs in almost all continents but it is especially diverse in South America. Catfishes are presently distributed in tropical to temperate areas and a small number of species are marine or amphibiotic. The new catfish shows many primitive features for catfishes in the maxilla, autopalatine, hyal elements, and Weberian apparatus. The genus is clearly distinguished by four autapomorphies: sand clock–shaped autopalatine, posterior limb of autopalatine widening strongly, post-articular arm of autopalatine longer, and a metapterygoid longer than broad. One tree was obtained both under equal and implied weighting with the following topology: a basal polytomy in the Siluriformes formed by Diplomystidae, Bachmanniidae, Kooiichthys and the Siluroidei. The new species appears to have been a marine or amphibiotic taxon: it was collected in beds considered to represent the Maximum Flooding Horizon of the transgression that deposited the Puerto Madryn Formation. The coast at this moment was at approximately 90 km to the west. According to faunistic evidence, the sea was warm temperate.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 89 , Issue 5 , September 2015 , pp. 791 - 801
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