Tselfatia

Tselfatia is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish. It has been discovered in Texas and Germany. The type species, Tselfatia formosa, was named and described in 1944 by French paleontologist Camille Arambourg.[2]

Tselfatia
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian–Turonian
T. formosa specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Superorder:
Elopomorpha
Order:
†Tselfatiiformes[1]
Genus:
†Tselfatia

Arambourg, 1944
Binomial name
†Tselfatia formosa
Arambourg, 1944

References
  1. "Crossognathiformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  2. Tselfatia Arambourg, 1944 in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-08-03.


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