Oshunia
Oshunia Temporal range: Albian
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Chordata
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Genus: | Oshunia
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Binomial name | |
Oshunia brevis |
Oshunia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony 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]
See also[]
- Prehistoric fish
- List of prehistoric bony fish
References[]
- ^ Oshunia at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
Further reading[]
- 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
Categories:
- Ionoscopiformes
- Early Cretaceous fish
- Prehistoric fish of South America
- Early Cretaceous animals of South America
- Albian life
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Romualdo Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 1986
- Taxa named by Alexander Kellner
- Prehistoric bony fish stubs
- Cretaceous fish stubs