Sultanuvaisia

Extinct genus of fishes

Sultanuvaisia antiqua
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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

  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.
  • The Pterosaur Species List, 3rd Edition (pdf). Compiled by Michael Hanson.
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Teleostei sensu de Pinna, 1996 (= Teleosteomorpha)
Actinopterygii
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Neopterygii
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Teleostei
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Pachycormidae
Aspidorhynchidae
Pholidophoridae
sensu stricto
Archaeomaenidae
Siyuichthyidae
  • Bogdaichthys
  • Dsungarichthys
  • Manasichthys
  • Siyuichthys
  • Wukangia
Pleuropholidae
Ankylophoridae
Catervariolidae
Teleosts with
cycloid scales
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Otolith taxa
  • Archengraulis
  • Bicavolithus
  • Doggerichthys
  • Sphaeronchus
  • Xenoleptolepis
Leedsichthys problematicus

Aspidorhynchus acutirostris

Ichthyokentema purbeckensis
Leptolepidae
Luisiellidae
Ascalaboidae
Crossognathiformes
Varasichthyidae?
Notelopidae
  • Bavarichthys?
  • Michin?
  • Notelops
  • Nusaviichthys
Crossognathidae
Pachyrhizodontidae
Ichthyodectiformes
Chuhsiungichthyidae
Bardackichthyidae
Cladocyclidae
Ichthyodectidae
Saurodontidae
Crown-Teleostei
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Tharsis dubius

Luisichthys vinalesensis

Xiphactinus audax
Elopomorpha
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Orthogonikleithridae
Osteoglossomorpha
    • see Osteoglossomorpha
Tselfatiiformes
  • Eoplethodus
Protobramidae
Plethodidae
Clupeocephala
Pentanogmius evolutus
Taxon identifiers
Sultanuvaisia


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