Ligulella
| Ligulella Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | † Taverne, 2011 |
| Family: | † De Saint Seine, 1955 |
| Genus: | † De Saint Seine, 1955 |
| Species: | †L. sluysi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ligulella sluysi De Saint Seine, 1955
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Ligulella is an extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Middle Jurassic epoch.[1][2] It contains one species, Ligulella sluysi. Ligulella is the only member of the family Ligulellidae and the order Ligulelliformes.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Taverne, L. (2011). "Ostéologie et relations de Ligulella (Halecostomi, Ligulelliformes nov. ord.), poisson du Jurassique moyen de Kisangani (Formation de Stanley ville) en République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (in French). 81: 213–233.
- ^ López-Arbarello, A.; Rauhut, O. W. M.; Moser, K. (2008). "Jurassic Fishes of Gondwana". Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. 63 (4): 586–612.