Sultanuvaisia

Sultanuvaisia antiqua Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	† Ichthyodectiformes
Genus:	† Sultanuvaisia Nessov, 1981
Species:	†S. antiqua
Binomial name
†Sultanuvaisia antiqua Nessov, 1981

Sultanuvaisia is an extinct genus of ichthyodectiform ray-finned fish from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl Kum, central Asia. It was named by Lev Nessov 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. Nessov, Lev A. (1981). "[Flying reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of Kyzyl-Kum]". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 15: 98–104.
2. Nessov, 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.

External links

• The Pterosaur Species List, 3rd Edition (pdf). Compiled by Michael Hanson.