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Sundayichthys
Temporal range: Visean
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Sundayichthys [1] [2]

Gardiner, 1969
Binomial name
Sundayichthys elegantulus
Gardiner, 1969

Sundayichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Carboniferous period ( Visean age) in what is now South Africa. Fossils were recovered from the Upper Witteberg Series. [2]

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References

  1. ^ J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
  2. ^ a b Gardiner, Brian George (1969). "New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 48 (4): 423–452. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1969.tb00722.x.
  3. ^ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.

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