page_title: Bagarius
section_title: Fossil record
hierarchical_section_title: Bagarius / Fossil record
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of the extinct catfish, Bagarius gigas, of Paleogene Sumatra
context_page_description: Bagarius is an Asian genus of catfishes of the family Sisoridae. It includes four extant species, and one extinct species, B. gigas.
context_section_description: B. gigas is reportedly from the Eocene of Sumatra, but the age of the locale has been questioned.
  The oldest known confirmed sisorid fossil is B. bagarius found in Sumatra and India of the Pliocene.
caption: Reconstruction of the extinct species, B. gigas, from the Paleogene of Sumatra
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