Ospia

Extinct genus of fishes

Ospia
Temporal range: Induan[1]
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Parasemionotiformes
Family: Parasemionotidae
Genus: Ospia
Stensiö, 1932
Species:
O. whitei
Binomial name
Ospia whitei
Stensiö, 1932

Ospia 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.

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References

  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
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