Oshunia
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| Oshunia Temporal range: Albian
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Clade: | Halecomorphi |
| Order: | †Ionoscopiformes |
| Family: | †Ionoscopidae |
| Genus: | †Oshunia Wenz & Kellner 1986 |
| Type species | |
| †Oshunia brevis Wenz and Kellner 1986
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Oshunia is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Albian. Fossils of the genus were found in the Romualdo Formation of the Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil.[1] Other authors assign a Cenomanian age to the fish.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Oshunia at Fossilworks.org
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- S. Wenz and A. W. A. Kellner. 1986. Découverte du premier Ionoscopidae (Pisces, Halecomorphi) sud-américain, Oshunia brevis n.g., n.sp., dans le Crétacé inférieur de la Chapada do Araripe (nord-est du Brésil). Bulletin du Museum national d'historie naturelle. Section C. Sciences de la terre, paleontologie, geologie, mineralogie 8(1):77-88
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