Paleoichthyology in Mexico
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Paleoichthyology studies fishes that lived in the past. México presents a great diversity of paleoichthyofauna found in deposits coming from the Paleozoic to the Pleistocene. Nevertheless Cre-taceous and Tertiary localities are the most abundant. The study of fossil fishes began during the 19th Century but in the last half of the 20th Century the studies were increased. The warm sha-llow waters of the Tethys Ocean covering our country during the Cretaceous produced a great diversity of marine fauna. The replacement of primitive neopterygians by advanced fishes and a great radiation of teleost fishes, which began at the end of the Cretaceous, are shown in various Mexican deposits. The exce-llent preservation of fishes in some localities such as the Tlayúa Quarry allows to perform paleobiological and paleoecological studies that may reveal some aspects of fish life in the past.
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