Nouvelles recherches sur les Cyprinidae (Poissons téléostéens) Oligocènes des Limagnes
Authors:
Jean Gaudant
Abstract:
The study of the Cyprinid fishes collected in the Oligocene of the Limagnes (Central France) leads one to recognize the occurrence of the genera VarhostichthysObrhelová and LeuciscusCuvier (subgenus PalaeoleuciscusObrhelová). These fishes are clearly indicative of lacustrine conditions which occurred in the Limagnes during Upper Oligocene times and even possibly as soon as Middle Oligocene (Upper Stampian) in the Limagne of Bourbonnais. They take place among the oldest known european fossil Cyprinids.