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Sultanuvaisia

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Sultanuvaisia antiqua
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ichthyodectiformes
Genus: Sultanuvaisia
Nesov, 1981
Species:
S. antiqua
Binomial name
Sultanuvaisia antiqua
Nesov, 1981

Sultanuvaisia is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform teleost ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl Kum, central Asia. It was named by Lev Nesov in 1981.[1] At first, he tentatively described the fossil material as jaw fragments of a ctenochasmatid pterosaur (a flying reptile),[1] but reinterpreted Sultanuvaisia as a fish in 1986.[2] The type species is S. antiqua.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Nesov, Lev A. (1981). "[Flying reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum]". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 15: 98–104.
  2. ^ Nesov, Lev A. (1986). "[The first finding of the Late Cretaceous bird Ichthyornis in the old world and some other bird bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia]". In Potapova, R. L. (ed.). [Ecological and Faunistic Investigations of Birds. Proceedings of the Geological Institute, Leningrad] 147 (in Russian). pp. 31–38.
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