Oshunia

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Oshunia
Temporal range: Albian
~112–106  Ma
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Oshunia
Binomial name
Oshunia brevis
Wenz & Kellner 1986

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]

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References

  1. Oshunia at Fossilworks.org
  2. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.

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