Nursallia
Appearance
Nursallia Temporal range: Late Cretaceous to Eocene,
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Fossil of "Nursallia" goedeli, a species tentatively classified to this genus | |
Scientific 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
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Nursallia is an extinct genus of pycnodontid ray-finned fishes, ranging from the Late Cretaceous period until its extinction during the Eocene.[1]
References
[edit]- 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