A fossil loricariid catfish (Siluriformes: Loricarioidea) from the Taubaté Basin, eastern Brazil Author Malabarba, Maria Claudia Author Lundberg, John G. text Neotropical Ichthyology 2007 2007-09-30 5 3 263 270 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252007000300005&lng=en&tlng=en journal article 10.1590/S1679-62252007000300005 1982-0224 5419227 Taubateia , new genus Figs. 2-5 Type species. Taubateia paraiba , new species . Diagnosis. Mesethmoid with shallow median cleft, flanked by reduced and anteriorly rounded cornua ( Fig. 4 ); mesethmoid ventral disk small, ball-shaped and subterminal ( Fig. 4 ); mesethmoid shaft wide ( Fig. 3a ); anterior tip of prevomer forms spike-like sutural joint with mesethmoid ( Fig. 3a ); posterolateral corner of the lateral ethmoid greatly expanded ( Figs. 2 , 3a ); ventral ridge on lateral ethmoid low and rounded ( Figs. 2 , 3a ); parasphenoid wide and flat ( Figs. 2 , 3a ); pterotic approximately square and widest at ventral margin( Figs. 2 , 3a , 5 ); transverse process of Weberian complex centrum not contacting the ossified transcapular ligament and reaching the border of the pterotic ( Fig. 5 ); ossified transcapular ligament forming a short transverse shelf medially reaching the basiocciptal lateral process ( Fig. 5 ); aortic groove extending at least to the ninth vertebrae ( Fig. 3a ); absence of pleural ribs posterior to sixth vertebrae ( Fig. 2 ). Etymology. Taubateia from the name Taubate, in reference to the basin where the fossil comes from, with the suffix “ ia ” from the Latin and Greek, denoting pertaining to; gender feminine.