El Torito, and is located some 20 km north of the
village of Cerro Cóndor, at the Ruta Provincial N°
12 in the valley of the Chubut River (Figure 2).
Type horizon. “Estratos de Almada,” basal lacustrine
section of the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation
(Late Jurassic: Oxfordian-Tithonian).
ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION
Like other chondrostean fishes, †Condorlepis
groeberi (Bordas, 1943) n. comb. is a very slender
fish, with the peculiarity that the body is deepest at
the relatively large head and gradually decreases
in depth posteriorly, ending in a strongly heterocercal
tail with a very long body lobe that culminates in
a short cercus-like extension