Nozamichthys Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | † Palaeonisciformes |
Genus: | † Nozamichthys Schultze & Bardack, 1987 |
Type species | |
†Nozamichthys contorta Schultze & Bardack, 1987 |
Nozamichthys is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the late Moscovian stage of the Pennsylvanian epoch in what is now Illinois, United States. [2] [1] Fossils were collected from the Mazon Creek fossil beds. The first part of the genus name is Mazon spelled backwards, and the second part means 'fish' (Greek : ἰχθῦςikhthûs). [2]