Although the species's position within the genus Corydoras is tentative and unresolved, its anatomy confirms that it is a member of the subfamily, Corydoradinae, and demonstrates that the callichthyids had already diverging or diversifying before the end of the Paleocene.
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Corydoras revelatus is an extinct species of callichthyid known from a single specimen found in Late Paleocene strata of the Mais Gordo Formation in Salta, Argentina.