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Extinct genus of fishes

Austroclupea
Temporal range: Pliocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Clupeiformes
Family: Clupeidae
Genus: †Austroclupea
Bardack, 1961
Species: †A. zuninoi
Binomial name
†Austroclupea zuninoi
Bardack, 1961

Austroclupea is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the Pliocene epoch. It contains a single species, A. zuninoi from Argentina. It was a relative of modern herring in the family Clupeidae.

It is one of the few Neogene freshwater fish genera from South America known to have gone extinct prior to modern times. Unlike many other freshwater fish of the region, it may have been uniquely vulnerable to the geological and climate events that affected the region during the Pleistocene.

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "PBDB". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-02-26.
  3. Gallo, Valéria; Calvo, Jorge O.; Kellner, Alexander W. A. (2011-04-01). "First record of a clupeomorph fish in the Neuquén Group (Portezuelo Formation), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Cretaceous Research. 32 (2): 223–235. Bibcode:2011CrRes..32..223G. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.12.006. ISSN 0195-6671.
  4. Vallone, Evelyn Romina; Vezzosi, Raúl Ignacio; Cione, Alberto Luis (2017-07-03). "First fossil fish (Teleostei, Siluriformes) from the Late Pleistocene of Santa Fe Province, Argentina". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (3): 369–377. Bibcode:2017Alch...41..369V. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1288828. hdl:11336/64903. ISSN 0311-5518.
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Austroclupea
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