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Nursallia

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Nursallia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to Eocene, 99.7–48.6 Ma
Fossil of "Nursallia" goedeli, a species tentatively classified to this genus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Pycnodontiformes
Family: Pycnodontidae
Subfamily: Nursallinae
Genus: Nursallia
Blot 1987
Type species
Nursallia veronae
Blot, 1987

Nursallia is an extinct genus of pycnodontid ray-finned fishes, ranging from the Late Cretaceous period until its extinction during the Eocene.[1]

References

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  • Studies on Mexican Paleontology (Topics in Geobiology) by Francisco J. Vega, Torrey G. Nyborg, María del Carmen Perrilliat, and Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros (page 179)
  • P. L. Forey, L. Yi, C. Patterson and C. E. Davis. 2003. Fossil fishes from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Namoura, Lebanon. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 1(4):227-330