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SUBMITTER: Cisneros JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7061909 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cisneros Juan C JC Angielczyk Kenneth K Kammerer Christian F CF Smith Roger M H RMH Fröbisch Jörg J Marsicano Claudia A CA Richter Martha M
PeerJ 20200306
The Pedra de Fogo Formation in the Parnaíba Basin of northeastern Brazil hosts a recently discovered lacustrine fauna and provides the only known record of the Captorhinidae in South America. Here, new captorhinid remains from this unit are described. Two partial mandibles, including one formerly ascribed to the genus <i>Captorhinus</i>, are here referred to <i>Captorhinikos</i> sp. a genus previously described from North America. The natural mould of a large mandible probably represents a new t ...[more]