Deltistes

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Deltistes
Temporal range: Pliocene–Recent
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Deltistes

Seale, 1896
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Deltistes is a genus of North American ray-finned fish in the Catostomidae family. It contains the modern D. luxatus found in California and Oregon, and the extinct D. owyhee Miller, 1967 and D. ellipticus Miller, 1967 both from the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho.[1]

References

  1. ^ Miller R. & Smith G. 1967 "New fossil fishes from Plio-Pleistocene Lake Idaho" Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology University of Michigan 654