Sundayichthys

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Sundayichthys
Temporal range: Visean
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Sundayichthys[1][2]

Gardiner, 1969
Binomial name
Sundayichthys elegantulus
Gardiner, 1969

Sundayichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Carboniferous period (Visean age) in what is now South Africa. Fossils were recovered from the Upper Witteberg Series.[2]

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  1. ^ J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
  2. ^ a b Gardiner, Brian George (1969). "New palaeoniscoid fish from the Witteberg series of South Africa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 48 (4): 423–452. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1969.tb00722.x.
  3. ^ "Palaeonisciformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 19 Nov 2012.

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