Biology:Broughia

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Short description: Extinct genus of fishes

Broughia
Temporal range: Induan[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Parasemionotiformes
Family: Parasemionotidae
Genus: Broughia
Stensiö, 1932
Species:
B. perleididoides
Binomial name
Broughia perleididoides
Stensiö, 1932

Broughia is an extinct genus of neopterygian ray-finned fish that lived during the Induan age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Greenland.[1] Fossils were found in the Wordie Creek Formation.

See also

  • Prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 364: 560. Archived from the original on 2009-02-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223520/http://strata.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=611&rank=class. Retrieved 2009-02-27. 

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