Decazella

Decazella
Temporal range: Gzhelian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: †Aeduelliformes
Family: †Aeduellidae
Genus: †Decazella
Heyler, 1967
Species:
†D. vetteri
Binomial name
†Decazella vetteri
(Heyler, 1964)
Synonyms
  • †Aeduella vetteri Heyler, 1964

Decazella is an extinct genus of freshwater ray-finned fish that lived during the late Carboniferous period. It contains a single species, D. vetteri from the Gzhelian (Stephanian) age of what is now Occitania, France (near Decazeville).

References

  1. ↑ Gonçalves, D.; Luccisano, V. (2025). "Taxonomic review, ontogeny and phylogeny of the aeduellids from the upper Carboniferous Decazeville Basin (Aveyron, France)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 23 (1) 2560885. doi:10.1080/14772019.2025.2560885.
  2. ↑ Gonçalves, D.; Luccisano, V.; Rebillard, A.; Logghe, A.; Štamberg, S.; Steyer, J.-S. (2025). "New aquatic vertebrate and ichnological remains from the Upper Carboniferous of Decazeville (Aveyron, France): implications for the paleofauna of the French Variscan basins". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 24 (11): 191–217. doi:10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a11.
  3. ↑ Schultze, Hans-Peter; Mickle, Kathryn E.; Poplin, Cecile; Hilton, Eric J.; Grande, Lance (2021). Handbook of Paleoichthyology, 8A. Actinopterygii I. Palaeoniscimorpha, Stem Neopterygii, Chondrostei. Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. p. 299. ISBN 978-3-89937-272-4.
  4. ↑ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  5. ↑ Štamberg, Stanislav (2018). "Actinopterygians of the Permian locality Buxières-les-Mines (Bourbon-l'Archambault Basin, France) and their relationship to other early actinopterygians | Fossil Imprint" (PDF). Fossil Imprint (in Czech). 74 (3–4): 245–291. doi:10.2478/if-2018-0017.